Re: Oracle 8i remains at 76% installation complete <- HELP!

From: Frank van Bortel <fbortel_at_home.nl>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:59:57 +0100
Message-ID: <3C44984D.5036E3F2_at_home.nl>

Chuckie Superstar wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I keep getting errors when installing Oracle 8i Personal Edition
> Version 8.1.5. This disk came with the text book I used a year ago.
> When I first installed the software a year ago, no problem, but when I
> wanted to use it again, it seems that it was not working properly so I
> uninstalled the whole program and now re-installing it is giving
> problems. Every time it reached 76% of installation completed when it
> is copying comUS.msb, it just stays there, it seems that it will never
> finishing installing, like some sort of an infinite loop that can exit
> only if set-up exits.
> What am I doing wrong? I was able to install the program on my
> computer (600Mhz, 128MB, 10GB Hard Drive, Win 98) before, but why not
> now?
>
> Thanks for the info,
> Chuckie Superstar
> chuckiesuperstar_at_yahoo.com

What it is actually trying to do is create services. You'll need Admin privs to complete that, and the services shouldn't be there already - an obscured error message may be somewhere hidden behind other screens.

if you want a clean install:

- delete your oracle_home diry (e.g. D:\ORANT)
- delete the registry key HKLM\Software\Oracle
- delete C:\Program Files\Oracle (don't say you did not install

  anything there - Oracle did!
- delete any services, starting with Oracle from   HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services Reboot after that.

Make sure you are member of the admin group, and retry. Hth. BTW - better download PO8iR3 (aka 8.1.7)

-- 
Gtrz,

Frank van Bortel

Received on Tue Jan 15 2002 - 21:59:57 CET