Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!transit.news.xs4all.nl!newszilla.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3bef01b2$0$213$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> From: Schermrooster Subject: Re: Anyone to Install 8i or 9i on Win XP Newsgroups: comp.database.oracle,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server Followup-To: comp.database.oracle Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:50:58 +0100 References: <9r5fjt$dp$1@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Lines: 69 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.51.112 X-Trace: 1005519283 newszilla.xs4all.nl 213 213.84.51.112 Xref: easynews comp.database.oracle:6758 comp.databases.oracle.misc:72029 comp.databases.oracle.server:124607 X-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 01:30:17 MST (news.easynews.com) Terry Dykstra wrote: For W2K you have to use version 8.1.7 r3 to get it working. 8.1.6 is generating errors when trying to determine your OS version under W2K HTH Peter > W2K would be an option. 816 and later are certified for that platform. > > -- > Terry Dykstra > Canadian Forest Oil Ltd. > "Sybrand Bakker" wrote in message > news:ttcscsc2vssp30@corp.supernews.com... >> Oracle didn't certify any of their products for XP, and windoze sw is >> usually not 100 percent downwards compatible. >> >> That should be enough, shouldn't it, or you must be really audacious. >> >> Regards >> >> Sybrand Bakker >> Senior Oracle DBA >> >> "Glenn Nyhan" wrote in message >> news:9r5fjt$dp$1@localhost.localdomain... >> > I have the same question i.e. Does anyone know yet whether Oracle 8i >> > Standard Edition is compatible with the new Microsoft XP operating > system? >> I >> > am running Oracle 8i Standard Edition (installed Sept 1999) on a NT 4.0 >> > workstation but the computer is aging and will have to be replace at >> > the beginning of the New Year. In view of replacing the computer and >> > re-installing Oracle 8i on the new machine, I was wondering if I should >> have >> > the shop that makes my computers for me >> > install NT 4.0 or if I can move to XP and still run 8i without >> > problems? >> And >> > what about running Forms 6i and Reports 6i? Will they work as well. >> > >> > Thanks in advance to whoever can answer this question. >> > >> > Glenn >> > >> > >> > Bigpond Newsgroups wrote in message ... >> > >I just spoke to an Oracle Rep this morning... He said they had >> > >received >> an >> > >internal communication stating that Oracle 9i was certified for XP. >> > > >> > >Can anyone elese confirm that before I leap over the edge? >> > > >> > >"Robert Chin" wrote in message >> > >news:X19x7.196671$w7.32031067@news02.optonline.net... >> > >> If anyone has installed Oracle on XP or is going to.... >> > >> Please let us know how it goes. >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> >>