Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!pe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!text.news.blueyonder.co.uk!53ab2750!not-for-mail
From: "Dave" <x@x.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
References: <RoSdneWjwcRiNSHcRVn-ig@rogers.com> <41bcb839$0$1119$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <_M6dncfVyu7qJCHcRVn-qg@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: Install of 10g on WinXP Sp2
Lines: 53
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response
Message-ID: <F%2vd.35882$up1.5209@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:47:17 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.39.107.91
X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk
X-Trace: text.news.blueyonder.co.uk 1102888037 82.39.107.91 (Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:47:17 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:47:17 GMT
Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:231424


"Lloyd Sheen" <sqlguyremoveallofthis@tostopspamhotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:_M6dncfVyu7qJCHcRVn-qg@rogers.com...
> This is an almost (only SP2) install of XP Pro.  I did find somewhere in 
> the docs a command line start command that seems to work.
>
> I think it is running now after much nashing of teeth.  I have been 
> working with UDB and SQL Server for last 18 mths and forgotten what a 
> "delight" it is to work with Oracle again.
>
> After the install I cannot find Enterprise manager , is that still 
> installed?  Last version I used was 9i.
>
> Lloyd Sheen
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr@dizwell.com> wrote in message 
> news:41bcb839$0$1119$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>> Lloyd Sheen wrote:
>>> Downloaded the install of 10g.  File is 10g_win32_db.zip.  Extract the 
>>> files from the zip.
>>>
>>> First I tried the setup.exe from the Disk1 folder but that did nothing.
>>>
>>> Then checked the autorun.inf which points to the autorun folder and the 
>>> autorun.exe.  Tried that and the installer window comes up. Click the 
>>> install and nothing happens except that the installer window disappears. 
>>> I have downloaded latest java from Sun as well.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Lloyd Sheen
>>
>> Usual problems, I fear. Too much installed, and of the wrong kind. First 
>> off, no Java installation is necessary at all for 10g to be installed. 
>> Second, start with a clean installation of Windows if it isn't already. 
>> Third, no DHCP please. Fourth, it would be better to install Oracle 
>> first, and Service Pack 2 afterwards. But fifth, so long as the firewall 
>> is turned off, you should be OK even with SP2.
>>
>> Regards
>> HJR
>
>

its web based now, dbconsole

if you installed it when you created a database it will be at 
http://<hostname>:5500/em


if you havent created a database use dbca to create one 


