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From: Sybrand Bakker <oradba@sybrandb.demon.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Oracle8i, Win98 -> No way to install
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:17:42 +0100
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:02:43 +0100, "Opi" <opi@volny.cz> wrote:

>Thanks. I found a lot of advices, but none of them includes a valid path to
>the patch. Where is it to be found?
>And furher, I had a look at
>http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/nt_817_installguide
>/start/ch1.htm#1338318
>And there I found that Oracle8i server can't be run on Win98. Is that true?
>If so, I really wonder what damn version I have found.
>Whose was that idea to use java for installer. Java was intended to control
>the microwave oven, not to install databases. Ondra
>


Two solutions below with 1 one search request at google

>
Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) for RDBMS 8.1.x Hangs on Machines
with Pentium 4 Processors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Versions Affected
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oracle Universal Installer for RDBMS 8.1.x


Platforms Affected
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the
Sun JRE and Symmantec JIT will encounter this problem. Windows NT,
Windows 2000 and NetWare platforms are confirmed to be affected.


Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
When installing Oracle *8.1.x Server Products with the Oracle
Universal Installer on machines that use the Sun JRE and Symmantec
JIT, the
installer
hangs.


Specifically for the Windows platform, versions of OUI lower than
1.7.1.9.0 will encounter this problem.

Likelihood of Occurrence
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the
Sun JRE and Symmantec JIT, OUI version 1.7.1.9.0 and earlier,  will
encounter this problem.

Windows NT, Windows 2000 and NetWare platforms are confirmed to
be affected.


Possible Symptoms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The failure typically is that the affected application simply
terminates.


Workarounds
~~~~~~~~~~~
Solution 1.

1. Obtain patch number 1507768 from Metalink

2. unzip the patch

3. unjar the contents

4. Go to the directory



.\cd\Disk1\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre\1.1.7.30/1\DataFiles\Expan
               ded\jre\win32\bin\symcjit.dll


       rename symcjit.dll to symcjit.dll.ori

5. Invoke OUI and install OUI to disk


      cd ./cd/Disk1/stage/win32/setup.exe


6. Use the installed OUI to install the RDBMS


7. Invoke OUI from the start menu, and install RDBMS software.


Solution 2.

1. Create a temporary directory on your server.

2. Copy the contents of the Oracle REBMS Server CD to the temporary
directory created in step 1.

3. Search the directory structure created in step 1 for the existence
of
the filename symcjit.dll.

4. Rename each copy of the symcjit.dll to symcjit.old.

5. Run the setup.exe from the \install\win32 directory and install
Oracle 8.1.x.


Patches
~~~~~~~
Currently there is not a patched installer available to deal with
this problem, one of the two workarounds listed above must be used.


References
~~~~~~~~~~
[BUG:1507768] INSTALLER FAILS WHEN RUNNING ON NEW PENTIUM 4 (IV)
PROCESSORS

[BUG:1507946] INSTALLER FAILS WHEN RUNNING ON NEW INTEL PENTIUM 4
(IV) PROCESSORS

____________________________________________________________________________
__

                            Oracle Support Services





And




The following is a step by step procedure to successfully installing
Oracle Services against an Intel Windows server:
 
1- Download JRE 1.2.2_008 from the following link(s):

      http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/old.html
 
       or

      http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/jre/download-windows.html
 
 
2- Install JRE 1.2 and extract the "symcjit.dll" file.
 
3- copy your entire Oracle 8.1.x CD to your local 
   file system (example: d:\OraServ816)
 
4- Replace d:\OraServ816\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre
   \1.1.7.xx\1\DataFiles\Expanded\jre\win32\bin\symcjit.dll 
 
   with the new one from (2) step above
 
[caution]
 
5- Add this to the path environment variable: 
    C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2\bin\classic;
 
    such that jvm.dll can be located and run in accordance.
 
6- Run the setup utility from the main local media folder 
   (example: d:\OraServ816) or d:\OraServ816\install\win32\setup.exe
 
This should allow you to install the Universal Installer and the
Server Product.
 
In order to successfully install other Oracle Products such as the
documentation, etc, it would be best to invoke the OUI from you local
media versus relying on the installer from product CD.
 
Hope this helps anyone with the P4, Win 2K Oracle RDBMS Services
installation issues.


You are confusing Oracle server and Personal Oracle.
You downloaded Personal Oracle, not Oracle Server

Regards



Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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