Re: Can't install Oracle 9i ... why?

"Leonardo Hyppolito" <leohyppolito_at_uol.com.br> wrote in message news:5f9fc859.0311051617.7466fa7c_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Oracle that I downloaded from the official
> website (learning purpose). The problem is that, when I click on
> 'setup.exe' from disk1, it loads the CD for some seconds, then nothing
> more happens.
>
> The Oracle version is 9i R2 (9.2.0.1.0). Total of 3 disks.
> I burned each disk to CD-ROM.
>
> (I also tried to copy the contents of disk1 to the HD and clicked
> 'setup.exe', but again, nothing happened).
>
> My system:
> Windows XP Professional, Sp1 with all the Windows Updates (US
> version).
> Athlon XP 1800+, 512 RAM, 25gb free of disk space
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Impossible to say what you are doing wrong. Your O/S is right. Your RAM is fine. I have issues with the Athlon, but that's just me.

The problem could be anything. You're presumably not installing on a clean Windows machine, so who knows what Java stuff you've got lurking in the undergrowth?? Perhaps the downloads were corrupted, and that's the problem? Is re-downloading a possibility? (Failing that, shell out about $80 and get the full CD install kit).

On every Windows installation I've ever done, I click setup.exe and the job then runs through to completion without effort. So I've never been very good at working out why others' Oracle installations on Windows run into such problems.

Usually it's Java stuff. And usually, the problems go away when you install onto a totally clean machine, freshly installed and freshly patched.

More than that I can't say. Sorry.

Regards
HJR Received on Wed Nov 05 2003 - 18:45:04 CST