Re: Personal Edition on XP

[Quoted] I had similar problems a while back. Try opening a "DOS" (or "command" or whateveritiscalled) window, changing to the relevant drive and directory and typing in "setup" there.

It worked for me!

Regards,

ETA "Peter Morris" <nospam.ple_at_se.com> wrote in message news:<b26bu7$mqv$1_at_venus.btinternet.com>...
> "Smiley" <anoniemke888antispam_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b26aeo$oa4$1_at_news.hccnet.nl...
> >
> > "Peter Morris" <nospam.ple_at_se.com> wrote in message
> > news:b25m07$kj4$1_at_venus.btinternet.com...
> > > Is there a demo version of Oracle personal edition that will
> > > run on XP?
> > >
> > > I went here
> > > http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/8i_personal/htdocs/winsoft.html
> > > and downloaded the version for windows NT/2000, but that doesn't
> > > seem to work. I click on the setup.exe file, and nothing happens.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Modify the installer files to be NT/W2k compatible and try to install it
> > again.
>
> By 'modify' I presume you mean properties->compatability. I already tried
> that. No joy.
>
> > You do have XP Pro I presume...
>
> Yes.
>
> > : )
> >
> > PS Installing on a Pentium 4 machine has some known bugs as well. Look it
> up
> > on Metalink
> >
> >
Received on Mon Feb 10 2003 - 16:00:29 CET