Oracle Install on Win95 - Despair - Please Help!!!!!

[dps]

I desparatley need to work from Home and need Oracle designer 6i installed on my WIN 95. I have the CD.

After having clean the Machine I installed it only to receive Orainst.exe error message followed by an explorer message requesting me to close or ignore (eventually forcing me to Close).
Used the default_home crawin95

I then installed forms 6i no problem.

Try to check out connection to database using system/manager and scott/tiger - received TNS errors ( to do with service and unable to connect to destination).

I browsed around forums and all for similar problems (for which there are few only).

To that effect I made sure that my service name in tnsnames.ora and listener.ora were in similar. Even used Net 8 to set up a service.

Still tns detsination error!

I had to install designer afterwards as CD with me for short while only.

What can I do? All I am asking is that I have a working version of Designer (and Forms now) and that I can connect to the database.

Please, PLease can somebody who has read this and realises exactly how to cure the problem help??? I really need to get on with things and this is really hampering my progress indeed.

thank you in advance and despair..........

 

[raygg]

Are you sure that des 6i is certified to work on win95? The only versions of Ora db certified to work on win95 was personal oracle 8 and pers oracle 7, whereas pers oracle 8i only runs on win98 and win2k , but not on win95. I wonder whether the i part of 6i means is indicative that you really have to upgrade to win98 for success?

 

[dps]

Well on the CD it is written Win 95 and also for the Forms 6i CD. I think if there was a platform issue then the installation would winge earlier on - I have had experience of this when I accidently was installing Oracle enterprise for win NT onto 95.

 

[raygg]

Pleasse list the specific error messages you get