Oracle 8i -Install on NT 4.0 Workstation stand-alone

[gaus]

I have a clean NT machine with no networking installed. It is not a 2 tier cleint/server setup. I have the 8i Enterprise CD. When I install, all goes well until Net 8 attempts to intitialize the DB after copying the files. I keep getting ora-00101 regarding invalid system parm for MTS_DISPATCHERS. I have also tried refromatting the drive and installing NT from scratch before with Netowrking installed and I received an IP address problem error. Both times Oracle could not be started. So now I have started over to make sure it is 'clean'. I have Option Pack 4 and SP6 installed and am ready to go. I don't understand what the problem is. Any help would be appreciated. My system is certainly powerful enough. I have a Duron 650 qith 128 meg RAM and a 20G hard drive. The 2 partitions involved are:
OS = FAT 2g
Target drive = NTFS 12g
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gary

 

[dps]

Hi,

I am getting the exact problem on my NT 4.0 standalone pc and it is frustrating. However; when trying out the Oracle 8i Enetrprise edition version 8.1.5 this probelm did not occur.

 

[dps]

...correction - it did!!

Still looking for a resolution - will try Installation readme docu

 

[gaus]

I stopped messing with it since I only needed to have DB access to learn Forms and increase my PL/SQL knowledge. I installed the Personal Edition of 8i and have been running fine since.

 

[dps]

Ah - so you are saying that your PO8 edition is running fine? and is it the case that you installed it some while back?
I also tried PO8 but had the same errors during the database creation and initialisation stages.

 

[newdba2]

The problem may be network adapters.

NT prefers to have a network card installed even when not connected to a network. We tried to install Oracle 8i EE on NT4 SP6 with different configurations of NT.

Eventually we managed successfully to install everything even on an NT standalone server.

What we did:

NT4 with SP6
Network adapter
Standalone Server (also works as PDC)
connected to a network: option ticked true
use DHCP: no
configure IP address (IP address used 129.132.7.1)
mask: 255.255.255.0
domain: "yourdomain"
WINS: 129.132.7.1

accept the default "workgroup" option in the last bootup

This was the only way that we could install EE. But we think that the network adapter made the most difference.

Hope this helps you!

 

[sujitopics]

If possible check ur file system
whether it is formatted as FAT 32 or NTFS
IT should be as NTFS.
some times it may cause pblms

 

[naglav]

Have u installed network card in ur system???
If not install that and try again.. Hope it will work...

 

[dps]

Bjames and sujitopics respectively : -
where and how do I check or configure the below and whther it is NTFS??

I am fairly desparate so will try and get hold of a Network card.

(Not very clear about this...)
NT4 with SP6
Network adapter
Standalone Server (also works as PDC)
connected to a network: option ticked true
use DHCP: no
configure IP address (IP address used 129.132.7.1)
mask: 255.255.255.0
domain: "yourdomain"
WINS: 129.132.7.1