Application 11i Installation Problems

Question

I just bought the trial version application 11i CD pack. When I tried to install it to my computer with NT4.0 service pack 6, it did system check. I used stage area rapid install. The installer find 2 errors.
First error is 'System Utilities Check Check system for make,
ld,ar and cc'
Second error is 'JDK availability Check Check that a JDK exists
in the location supplied by the user'
My questions are:
1.When I check the error for detail, the first one tells me that
'Check MKS Installation'. What's MKS though? and what's make,ld,
ar and cc? Where can I get them and how to install them?
2.Where can I get JDK?
3.When I look up installation guide, I found that I need go to Metalink to get to know how to download and install JDk. But when I go to Metalink, It ask me to signin. I am not Oracle Contactor. I have no CSI. Is it mean I can not get JDK when I am not contractor? If so, why Oracle is selling application 11i trial version CD packs. It's gonna be some way to install 11i trial version.
Is there any one could help?
Thank you very much
Timothy Park 04/03/02

Answer 1

Hi all,
I ran into the same issues with the MKS software - Developers Edition. I contacted them, and the following work-around was supplied.
We have created a work around for Oracle users so that they can still use
MKS Toolkit for Developers (instead of the more costly option- Toolkit for
Professional Developers).
You can do what you need to with tkdev using 1 of the following:
1) Find out from what scripts the Oracle software is calling ld, and change
it to call cc instead. Some linker specific options may need to be changed,
but try it first with just changing ld to cc. This is the preferred option,
and the one most likely to provide success.
2) Temporarily create ld.exe as follows:
a) cp $ROOTDIR/mksnt/cc.exe $ROOTDIR/mksnt/ld.exe
b) cp $ROOTDIR/etc/compiler.ccg $ROOTDIR/etc/ld.ccg
This will probably work as long as the command line that Oracle is passing
to ld is very simple. This usage of cc.exe (by copying to ld.exe) has been
observed to work in simple cases, but is not supported by MKS.
I tried method 2. The reason here being, I would rather have unsupported code from MKS, than Oracle.
But, alas, it did not work. This is now the only item I have to resolve to start the installation.
I am open to suggestion ? I have obtained the enterprise edition of MKS, but I would still like to get the thing working with the developers edition. Also, if there are any differences between Windows 2000, and XP, can you list them
WARNING : I am using a server with Windows 2000 professional. Microsoft's latest updates include
service pack 3.
DO NOT INSTALL SERVICE PACK 3
or you will receive an invalid Operating System error