Re: Oracle8 for NT w/SP3 & SP4 installed - install + operational problems

I would echo basically the same thing - I have many 8.03 Oracle NT machines, none with any of the problems you mention, or, for that matter, any problems at all. The only *very* minor big I have seen is that when adding a SID with the Net8 wizard, the wizard hangs if you do a create and test all in one. No big deal.

When installing Oracle on NT I always demand a fresh re-install of the operating system (even if it came preloaded by a vendor; you don't know what mistakes they made). I know this sounds draconian, but NT is not UNIX or VMS. By the way I do use SP4 and SP3, haven't seen any differences or new problems yet.

Good Luck,

Steve

Jerry Gitomer wrote in message <740qum$ac6$1_at_client2.news.psi.net>...
>Hi Larry,
>
> I have installed Oracle 8 on five different NT boxes and all are in
>production use with no problems. However,I did have problems on one NT
box.
>My local MSCE discovered that the bad guy had been initially configured as
a
>Backup Domain Controller. When it was decided to use the box as a database
>server NT was reinstalled, Oracle installed, and then our problems began.
>
> It turns out that if the box was ever used as either a Primary Domain
>Controller or a Backup Domain Controller and is "demoted" to a standalone
>server that the system disk should be reformatted in order to purge all
>vestiges of the domain controller stuff, for if not thou shalt have an
>unreliable system!
>
> Based on my experience I would start looking at NT rather than Oracle
as
>the source of your problems. (Incidentally, for what its worth I haven't
>heard anything good about SP4.)
>
>regards
>
>Jerry
>
>
>Larry Morley wrote in message <366230D2.EDA898FE_at_albany.net>...
>>Hi,
>>
>>When attempting to install Oracle8 (8.0.4, actually) on NT4 w/SP3
>>loaded, I've had a lot of problems so far, but (at least as far as I
>>can tell) I've got one installation that's more-or-less working, by
>>creating a database and the Net8 files (tnsnames, sqlnet & listener)
>>manually. All of the "assistants" were buggy & unstable under NT4 w/
>>SP3, and the documentation's "search" applet routinely crashed both
>>Netscape & IE, making it really difficult to figure out what I needed
>>to do to get Oracle running. The installation program's database
>>creation script (on my CD, anyway) has a syntax error in it.
>>
>>Now, trying to install on NT4 w/SP4 loaded (the other had SP3),
>>things are even worse. The Net8 assistant, for example, doesn't work
>>at all; same with the other java-based stuff - the JVM ("java.exe")
>>generates a trap D (access violation) before the "assistant" is even
>>done loading. The "information navigator" in the HTML based doc-
>>umentation doesn't work at all, either. On the machine w/SP3, I
>>still cant stop & start an instance without having to reboot the
>>machine - some part of Oracle (I haven't been able to track down
>>which, yet) goes beserk, eats a ton of memory, and almost every
>>available CPU cycle (it's so bad that it takes over 15 minutes to
>>bring the machine down cleanly).
>>
>>I've got to install a new copy of NT4 on a machine anyway, and I'm
>>considering attempting the Oracle installation <before> loading the
>>service pack(s), but even if this works, it isn't great - it'd mean
>>I'd have to essentially reinstall NT on every machine I wanted to
>>install Oracle on. I checked to make sure that the JVM was the most
>>recent from Sun (it is), and I've tried this on other machines with
>>the same results. The assistants don't work correctly on '95 OSR2
>>either. Since this happens everywhere I've tried it, it can't just
>>be me, but I cant find anyone else who's having the same problems
>>(or at least, who's talking about it in the newsgroups). I can't
>>get a response out of Oracle, either.
>>
>>I'd really like to have an alternative to SQL server, especially
>>one that's cross-platform. But this is turning out to be more
>>trouble than it's worth. There's no way I could in good consience
>>turn this loose in a customer's production environment at this
>>point.
>>
>>Any ideas? Thanks in advance - I really appreciate it.
>>
>>Larry Morley
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 11:10:48 CST