Installing Oracle 8i over the top of existing install

[yorrick]

Hi,

I am running Windows 2000 server with 2 virtual disks, configured with RAID 5.
I have a c-drive and a d-drive. On the d-drive I installed Oracle 8i and played around with it.
Now I want to deinstall Oracle and reinstall it on the same d-drive.
When I put the CD back in and went to Install/Deinstall it simply did nothing except lose the splash screen. I tried formatting the disk (d), deleting the registry keys but still the same result when I click Install/Deinstall - no response.

Can anyone tell me why?

There is definitely nothing wrong with the disk as I have tried it in other machines.


regards

 

[bdraper]

Are you running a P4, if so you could be running into bug number 1507768. I have included the patch notes below.

Readme for bug number 1507768

A copy of OUI 1.7.1.10.0 is being provided to be used
in a work around for installing on Pentium 4 processors.


1. unzip the patch

2. unjar the contents

3. Go to the directory

.\cd\Disk1\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre\1.1.7.30/1\DataFiles\Expanded\jre\win32\bin\symcjit.dll

rename symcjit.dll to symcjit.dll.ori

4. Invoke OUI and install OUI to disk

cd ./cd/Disk1/stage/win32/setup.exe

5. Use the installed OUI to install the RDBMS

Invoke OUI from the start menu, and install RDBMS software.