I'd expect at least one more version 9i release 3. Bear in mind as well that
your experience is not necessarily representative. You might equally have
found that you had such a new machine that the 8i installer would refuse to
run at all on your machine.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Wyrm" <afdng_at_wyrm.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> Further to an earlier thread where I was having problems installing Oracle
> 9i and creating a database on Win2k SP2. These are my findings.
>
> I did a complete clean reinstall of Win2k plus SP2.
> The installation (Software Only) of 9i went OK.
> However, when I tried to create a database using the Database
Configuration
> Assistant it crashed on the last step and rebooted the server. The
database
> had not been created properly and could not be seen by Enterprise Manager.
> Does this happen on other systems?
>
> I really can't afford the time to create the database again - it took
> several hours to try to create this one - so I'm going to wipe 9i and use
8i
> (8.1.7) instead.
> I was able to install 8i and configure a database on another Win2k SP2
> server in less time than 9i took to fail to create a database alone!
> Evidently 9i still has issues and until a Service Pack (or updated
version)
> is released for it, I can't see myself using it (or recommending it) on
> Win2k SP2.
> Does anyone know if there is a new version in the pipeline?
>
> Laurence Mee.
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 21 2002 - 10:38:25 CST
