I don't dispute your experience, what I am saying is that with installation
and configuration experiences vary. the fact that the 8i JRE does not run on
pentium 4 machines causes a lot of grief.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Wyrm" <afdng_at_wyrm.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1016729931.16637.0.nnrp-12.c29f1e83_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3c9a0c90$0$230$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > 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.
>
> Except that I've just uninstalled 9i, then installed 8i (on the same
server)
> and configured a database and a repository with it since posting the last
> message!
> Much much much quicker than 9i!
>
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> > "Wyrm" <afdng_at_wyrm.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:1016725823.21996.0.nnrp-14.c29f1e83_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> > > 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 Fri Mar 22 2002 - 04:24:05 CST
