Re: Oracle 8 Install aborts

"Ted Thomas" <tthomas_at_netacc.net> wrote in message news:<3d168461$1_at_news.netacc.net>...
> On trying to install Personal Oracle 8.0.3.0 on a new PC using Windws 2000
> (NTFS), about two-thirds the way through the installation it aborts with the
> error message "Unable to delete NT service for the SQL*Net V2 Listener".
> Since this is a new PC, how could SQL*Net V2 Listener service be installed,
> and if it was installed, how would one find it? I was able to load Personal
> Oracle on my old PC (also using Windows 2000) without any problem.
>
> The partial installation could not be uninstalled. Thinking the problem
> could possibly be caused by ZoneAlarm, whcih sometimes causes installation
> problems, I temporarily stopped ZoneAlarm from being invoked at startup,
> deleted the Oracle subdirectories, rebooted the computer and tried
> installing it again. Same problems.
>
> Does anyone kmow what is causing the problem, and how to rectify it (remove
> the NT service for the SQL*Net V2 Listener?)
>
> On general principals, I've removed the Oracle subdirectories and all
> unshared Oracle information from the registry.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ted Thomas

Please add up
1 Personal Oracle 8.03 ===> desupported
2 Personal Oracle 8.03 ===> never certified for Windoze 2000 3 Windoze 2000 ===> no Microsux product has ever been 100 percent downwards compatible.

Dump Personal Oracle 8.0.3 and download Personal Oracle 8.1.7 or even 9.i

Regards

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 10:05:24 CEST