Oracle 8.1.5 & WIN2K

[aitai]

Hi, All

I am a complete novice to installing Oracle 8i (8.1.5). I did a clean install of the Enterprise Edition on WIN2K, which, unfortunately, was not error free. I was unable to install the starter database (even after several attempts). The installation summary read: Installation completed successfully with some errors. I assume the errors refer to the starter database.

These are the errors I get now.
1. When I try to use SQL*Plus: ora-12560: TNS: protocol adaptor error. I have used every combination of password available. I have made sure that the TNSListerner is running.

2. When I try to manually install the starter DB: DBCA-00016: unable to copy the seed database. Oracle Databse Configuration Assistant failed (failed)

3. And, this is a weird one, despite database installation failure I get what seems to be a 'ghost' of the database that I tried to create (global name, SID) remain in the Oracle Administration Assistant for Window NT window pain. So, when I try to delete it I get the: error deleting database ora-0205 (error in identifying control file).
The image of the 'ghost' is gone, hovever, it is still in the system as I can't use that global name & SID again (name already exist errors)

There seems to be many issues from this installation. I would greatly appreciate any pointers on how to get my development environment up and running with out re-installation. Much appreciated.

My system configuration is a dual-boot environment with WIN98 (c:\ drive primary partition) on the primary master disk (HDD0), and WIN2K (D:\ drive primary partition) on the primary slave disk (HDD1). Both drives are formated as FAT 32.

aitai

 

[rcurva]

My two-cent worth of info.

1. definitely this error will come out since no database is installed. there is no way you can log-in for sure.

2. this is a permission error in a unix install, meaning, the Installer (Universal installer) must have access locally to the cd-rom device in which the 8i cd is loaded. You can try the DBCA outside the Installer to create the starter DB, lets see if it works.

3. the OracleServices for the starter db seemed already installed in your server. You can check control panel>services if there are OracleService<SID> in it. You can use the oradim80 utility to delete the service for that SID.

 

[raygg]

Oracle does not certify 815 for win2k. The first version of oracle certified for win2k was 816. I too did an install of 815 on win2k and could not install the db. Then I totally removed 815 (go to mealink and search for 'clean machine), realizing my mistake, installed 817 and it worked like a charm. Versions 815 and 816 have problems that were fixed in 817 - so I recommend you go to 817. My experience is that unless you have a higher end machine, expect to see performance degrade when going from an NT to a win2k installation, especially the oracle tools. Unless you have a real pressing need to be on win2k, if you do not have a really robust machine, keep oracle on NT.

Hope this helps.