Oracle8i (8.1.7) fails to install on Win2k and P4

Question

Having a problem with Oracle8i 8.1.7 not installing on a Pentium 4 system. The PC is any Pentium 4 with Windows 2000 Professional installed.
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When attempting to execute the setup.exe, Task Manager Processes show the setup.exe and jrew.exe begin to execute. Within a few seconds, both setup and jrew terminate without any errors. The end result is that the setup process never begins. We can install older (non i) versions such as 8.0 without problems.
What's keeping the setup from functioning on the Pentium 4? Have verified this on both Dell and IBM systems.null

Answer 1

Here is the information from Oracle. Oracle offers several
possible workarounds. We used the third option and it worked.
Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) for RDBMS 8.1.x Hangs on
Machines
with Pentium 4 Processors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Versions Affected
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oracle Universal Installer for RDBMS 8.1.x
Platforms Affected
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the
Sun JRE and Symmantec JIT will encounter this problem. Windows
NT,
Windows 2000 and NetWare platforms are confirmed to be affected.
Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
When installing Oracle 8.1.x Server Products with the Oracle
Universal Installer on machines that use the Sun JRE and
Symmantec JIT, the installer
hangs.
Specifically for the Windows platform, versions of OUI lower than
1.7.1.9.0 will encounter this problem.
Likelihood of Occurrence
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the
Sun JRE and Symmantec JIT, OUI version 1.7.1.9.0 and earlier,
will
encounter this problem.
Windows NT, Windows 2000 and NetWare platforms are confirmed to
be affected.
Possible Symptoms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The failure typically is that the affected application simply
terminates.
Workarounds
~~~~~~~~~~~
Solution 1.
1. Obtain patch number 1507768 from Metalink
2. unzip the patch
3. unjar the contents
4. Go to the directory
.\cd\Disk1\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre\1.1.7.30/1
\DataFiles\Expan
ded\jre\win32\bin\symcjit.dll
rename symcjit.dll to symcjit.dll.ori
5. Invoke OUI and install OUI to disk
cd ./cd/Disk1/stage/win32/setup.exe
6. Use the installed OUI to install the RDBMS
7. Invoke OUI from the start menu, and install RDBMS software.
Solution 2.
1. Create a temporary directory on your server.
2. Copy the 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 \install\win32 directory and
install
Oracle 8.1.x.
Solution 3.
To avoid the hang in the installation itself, do the following:
a. Copy the install directory from the CD to the hard disk say,
e:\temp.
b. Open oraparam.ini and make the following modifications
(Assuming CD
drive is f:)
* Change the "SOURCE=" line to use the full path to the CD
instead of a
relative path. (i.e. SOURCE=f:/stage/products.jar)
* Change the "JRE_LOCATION" line to use the full path to the CD
instead of a
relative path. (i.e.
JRE_LOCATION=f:/stage/Components/oracle/swd/jre/1.1.7/1/DataFiles
/Expanded)
* Change the "OUI_LOCATION" line to use the full path to the CD
instead of a
relative path. (i.e.
OUI_LOCATION=f:/stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.9.0/1/DataF
iles/Expanded
* Change the "JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS" line to add "-nojit" as the
first argument.
(i.e. JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=-nojit -ms16m -mx32m)
* Other entries should remain the same
c. Launch setup.exe from the temporary location on your hard
drive (i.e.
e:\temp\install\win32\setup.exe). This will use the modified
oraparam.ini and
pick up the information from the CD since the absolute locations
are
specified.
Choose a Custom install and choose not to create a database
during the
install. This way, the Database Configuration Assistant will
not be launched
during installation.
The Net8 Configuration Assistant will still be launched, and
there is no way
to suppress it. You will need to kill the Net8 Configuration
Assistant if it
hangs due to the bug. The installation still will have been
successful, and
you can run the DBCA and NetCA after installation.
To kill NetCA if it hangs during installation:
In the "Configuration Tools" window, highlight the "Net8
Configuration
Assistant" and click "Stop". If that does not work, look for
the most recent
JRE process using the Task Manager, and kill it manually.
NOTE: the OUI
itself will also have a jre process. Be sure to kill the one
with the most
recent date, which should be the jre process being used for
Net8CA, not the
one for OUI itself.
After killing the configuration tools and continuing through the
installation
to the "End of Installation" screen, you should modify the
configuration tools
to use "-nojit", then call the appropriate tools from the Start
Menu.
For each of the following files in the ORACLE_HOME:
assistants\dbca\dbassist.cl
assistants\dbma\dbmig.cl
assistants\ifa\ifa.cl
bin\owm.cl
ldap\oidamdin\oidadmin.cl
network\tools\netasst.cl
network\tools\netca.cl
owm\install\instowm.cl
Edit the contents of the file to add "-nojit" as shown below:
Command=("C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\BIN\JREW" -nojit -
classpath ....
this is the only thing you need to add --> ^^^^^^
Then, launch the necessary tools, like Net8CA and DBCA from the
Start Menu.
Patches
~~~~~~~
Currently there is not a patched installer available to deal with
this problem, one of the workarounds listed above must be used.