Installer problem Oracle 8i

Hi folks,

maybe you can help me with the following problem:

What happend:

• We had an up and running oracle server with several databases for software development on an W2k-System.
• On the system coexists a combination of an 8.0 and an 8.1 server.
• After we accidentally start an Oracle 8.0 client installation (which crashes during the installation), we couldn't start the databases anymore.
• I realised that from this point on the registry entries for the OracleHome had been some kind of uncommon.
• After I fixed these entries the databases start again.

The problem I couldn't fix so far:

  When I start the Oracle 8.1 Installer to install or remove some software-modules the installer quits the installation procedure with a message like "Can not install in an existing Oracle 8.0 HomeDirectory".

I removed the Oracle 8.0 Entries in the registry (we only need the 8.1 databases, so I removed the 8.0 entries and renamed the ora80 HomeDirectory). After that I checked the environment variables and path settings, too. nothing should point to the oracle 8.0 anymore.

Tracing with FileMon and RegMon doesn't show anything with Oracle 8.0 anymore version\path. I can't figure out why the installer still complains about a Oracle 8.0 version.

Greetings

      S. Wegener Received on Tue Jan 15 2002 - 01:48:02 CST