Re: help installing 8i?

"Rizzo" <rizzo_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:5jS%5.94023$J32.3682202_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> I was hoping you can help me with something. I downloaded the personal
> version of Oracle 8i from their web site. I unziped it using winzip and
 when
> I try to install it on my desktop I get the following message.
>
> (snip)
>
> My laptop is a pentium 120 with 40 megs of ram and 500 megs free on
 the
> hard drive.
>
> Any idea on how it fix any of these problems? I seem to have problems
> with the downloads from the Oracle site.

First, I think that everyone has problems with dowloading from Oracle.

Second, I think it states pretty clearly in readme for PO8 that you are going to need a bigger and better machine.

I've installed and run 8.1.6 Enterprise Edition on a NT4.0 Pentium166, 48M of RAM, and a few GB of disk. It was a chore and somewhat inadvisable for the novice. It was more a challenge than an exercise in trying to end up with something meaningful. PO8 is not that fundamentally different from the Enterprise Edition when it comes to the resources in needs to execute the installation.

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Michael O'Neill
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