Re: Installing 8i Personal on Windows 2000 Professional fails

There is a 'Pentium 4' bug with the Java Just In Time compiler Oracle is using in 8i - affects some machines. If that is the case - one work around (from Howard J. Rogers) is "copy the installation CD to disk, find all references to a file called symjitc.dll, and rename it to symjitc.old, and then run the installation from the hard disk."

Another thing to check - is there a different response if you try installing Enterprise Edition? Try that installation, then - if it works, install personal & if that works, then deinstall enterprise.

Just some ideas.
/Hans

Veronica Yuill wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Oracle 8i Personal on Win 2K Professional. I've
> done this on 2 different machines, and tried both "Typical Install"
> and "Custom". Every time, it fails silently when it gets halfway
> through "Checking Prerequisites" -- it just drops out with no error
> messages and returns me to the desktop. When I check the install log,
> the last entry is as follows:
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Key = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
>
> SubKey = Software\Gradient\DCE
> Query returned : false
> Setting value of PRE_REQUISITE to false
> # The pre-requisite for the component DCE Integration 8.1.7.0.0 has
> failed.
> Setting value of PRE_REQUISITE to true
> Setting value of PRE_REQUISITE to true
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> What is DCE, why do I need it, and where do I get it??
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Veronica
Received on Sat Jun 07 2003 - 00:49:14 CDT