Re: Oracle 8i on Win XP

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:34:01 GMT
Message-ID: <3EC2A6BA.5822AD5F@telusplanet.net>

Peter Geldhof wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OS: Win XP Professional
>
> For testing purposes I downloaded Oracle 8i (8.1.7) enterprise edition.
> When I try to startup the Oracle Universal Installer it immediately dies ...
> my processor goes to 100% and then immediately stops. I do this on a brand
> new (may 2003) Compaq Evo N1020 (512MB, 1.8Ghz proc etc ...)

Good luck - if you ever get Oracle8i working on XP consistently, please publish the method. Many are very interested. Perhaps even Oracle will be interested - they explicitly state it doesn't work.

> The strange thing is that I tried this installation already several times on
> other laptops without any problems. Does anyone know what might be wrong ?
> (I've installed the JVM from Sun) Do I need to set manually some
> environment variables ?

Are these other XP? Received on Wed May 14 2003 - 15:34:01 CDT