| installing oracle 8i personal edition 8.1.5 on windows XP system [message #99507] |
Sun, 16 December 2001 06:19  |
andy leslie
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Registered: December 2001
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hi,
i am having problems installing oracle 8i (release 8.1.5) on my XP system, when the universal installer starts i get the following error message
"Invalid staging area. There are no top level
components for windows NT available for install
from this staging area"
any ideas please?
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| Re: installing oracle 8i personal edition 8.1.5 on windows XP system [message #99517 is a reply to message #99507] |
Thu, 20 December 2001 04:49  |
andy leslie
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Registered: December 2001
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thanks m8, I got it workng now! the only inconvenience is i have to start the oracle services manually once the OS has loaded. This is only a minor problem though because i'm a student and as such only use oracle if i really have to! now to install forms *gulp*...
thanks again
andy
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| Re: installing oracle 8i personal edition 8.1.5 on windows XP system [message #99623 is a reply to message #99517] |
Tue, 29 January 2002 00:38 |
Paul
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Registered: April 1999
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I was excited when I read this link, and it looks like Andy did get a solution to his installation of Oracle 8i 8.1.5 on an XP system, however, the solution did not show up in this thread. I am seeking to do the exact same thing, get oracle 8i 8.1.5 on my WindowsXP system. Someone PLEASE share the work-around necessary to get it on XP. I had it on Win2000 a year ago and need it desperately on XP.
Thanks greatly!
Paul
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| Re: installing oracle 8i personal edition 8.1.5 on windows XP system [message #99627 is a reply to message #99517] |
Tue, 29 January 2002 16:13 |
andy leslie
Messages: 5
Registered: December 2001
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to get round the problem I chose to install the windows NT version of oracle 8i (same release version) and this worked fine.
The installation process is basically the same except you have to specify a host string to log onto via sql etc. .(i chose per8i but you can call it anything really).
there are now only 2 problems to overcome..
1st problem..
if you are not on a network you must fool oracle to believe that you are (or buy a network card), i think this is answered elsewhere on the forum, let me know if it isn't and i'll email you a copy i have at uni.
second problem...
if after installing oracle you run sql (or whatever) without rebooting it will run fine (make sure you note down all usernames and passwords given during install). However if you then reboot you will find you can not logon to oracle any more. I found that this was because of the dependencies involved with the oracle services meanong that they have to be started manually rather than automatically. So..
got to control Panel --> Admin' tools --> Services and then find and run in this order:
OracleOraHome81Agent
" DataGatherer
" TNSListener
" PER8I (or what ever u named it)
OracleWebAssistant0
OracleOraHome81ClientCache
running the services in this order will ensure the dependencies are satisfied. It is a pain to have to do this every time you want to use Oracle after a reboot but it is better than nothing i guess. I just hope you can get a copy of the NT version.
let me know how you get on,
regards,
Andy
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| Re: installing oracle 8i personal edition 8.1.5 on windows XP system [message #100000 is a reply to message #99517] |
Wed, 12 June 2002 12:57 |
James Fleming
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Are you using A P4 processor. There's a known bug: Oracle installer 8.1.x hangs on machines with a Pentium 4 Processor. (Fixed in Oracle 9i). Obtain patch number 1507768 from Metalink or copy the entire CD to the hard drive and rename each copy of the symcjit.dll to symcjit.old. For more information, please refer to the following note [[NOTE:131299.1]] .
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| Install Oracle 8i on XP [message #100469 is a reply to message #100087] |
Sun, 12 January 2003 04:08 |
Sevilay
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Registered: January 2003
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Hello Ramowa,
I have also problems with installing Oracle 8i on Windows XP. This problem message is always coming:
"Invalid staging area. There are no top level
components for windows NT available for install
from this staging area"
I will be very happy if you can tell me how you installed your Oracle.
Thanks
Sevilay
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| NOTE:131299.1 [message #100518 is a reply to message #99517] |
Mon, 03 February 2003 10:10 |
Ary
Messages: 4
Registered: February 2003
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HaVing problem installing Oracle 8i on XP P4
Would you tell me more about the followin NOTE:131299.1
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| Solution for Oracle 8i with Windows XP Pentium 4 [message #100568 is a reply to message #100455] |
Tue, 18 February 2003 08:18 |
Ary
Messages: 4
Registered: February 2003
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I found the solution for it
Workaround 1:
1. Create a temporary directory on your server.
2. Copy the entire contents of the Oracle RDBMS Server CD to the temporary directory created in step 1.
3. Search the directory structure created in Step 1 for the existence of the filename symcjit.dll.
4. Rename each copy of the symcjit.dll to symcjit.old.
5. Run the setup.exe from the installwin32 directory and install Oracle 8.1.x and related products.
Workaround 2:
If you continue to experience any of the symptoms after performing the workaround above,
follow these steps:
1. Copy the contents of the install directory to a temporary directory onto your hard disk.
2. Search for all copies of the 'symcjit.dll' file, and rename them to 'symcjit.old'.
3. Go to the install directory and open the 'oraparam.ini' file for editing. Please note this file is write-protected.
4. Change the JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS parameter to
JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=-nojit -ms16m -mx32m
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