Error starting the 9iAS installer on Windows 2000 on P4 laptop

Question

I am having problem running 9iAS Installer on my P4 Laptop.
any solution?

Answer 1

Hi
I have successfully installed Oracle products in P4 hardware configuration and there is a know bug in Oracle & P4. Follow these steps below and I am sure that you will be successful in installing Oracle on P4.
Background:
When installing and configuring Oracle 8i to support a Syllabus Plus timetabling application on a Pentium 4 Server with Windows 2000 Advance Server, the following issues were encountered:
1.     The Oracle 8i Universal Installer (OUI) aborts without notice
2.     When installed using either the Oracle 9i OUI or the patched 8i OUI downloaded from Oracle Corporation, errors occurred during installation and java based configuration tools such as the Database Configuration Assistant and the Network Configuration Assistant would not run.
Problem Causes
Oracle Corporation have documented the following known issues:
1.     The OUI 8.1.x fails to recognize the P4 processor and aborts without notice.
2.     The OUI 8.1.x or above has problems on machines that use the Sun JRE and Symantec JIT. Windows 2000 (all versions) and Netware platforms are affected by this.
Work Around
The following work around has been used successfully at the Northern Territory University to overcome these problems.
     1.     Install Oracle 9i patched installer available from Oracle Technology Network website on the machine running on Pentium 4 Processor.
     2.     After installing Oracle Universal Installer, open file oraparam.ini and make the following modifications: (Assuming CD-ROM Drive is d: and you are installing Oracle from CD-ROM)
     a.     Change the Source= line to use the full path to the CD instead of relative path. (i.e. Source=d:\stage\products.jar)
     b.     Change the JRE_Location line to use the full path to the CD instead of relative path. (i.e. JRE_Location=d:\stage\components\oracle\swd\jre\1.1.7\1\datafiles\expanded)
     c.     Change the OUI_Location line to use the full path to the C drive (where the installer is installed) instead of relative path. (i.e. JRE_Location=c:\stage\components\oracle\swd\oui\1.6.0.9.0\1\datafiles\expanded)
     d.     Change the JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS line to add -nojit as the first argument. (i.e. JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=-nojit ms16m ms32m) Other entries should remain same.
     3.     Launch OUI and this will use the modified oraparam.ini file and pick up the information from the CD-ROM. (since the absolute locations are specified)
     4.     Choose the custom install and choose not to create the database during the install. This way, the DBCA will not be launched during installation.
5.     The Net8 Configuration assistant will still be launched and there is no way to suppress it. If you need to kill it due to installer hanging then in the configuration tools window highlight the Net8 Configuration Assistant and click Stop. If this does not work then look for the most recent JRE process using task manager and kill it manually. Note: The OUI itself will also have a jre process. Make sure to kill the only the most recent process.
6.     After killing the configuration tool, continue through the installation to the End of Installation screen. We can modify the configuration tool to use this option nojit.
     7.     Once installation is complete, each of the following files in the ORACLE_HOME needs to be modified:
Each file will contain a command similar to the one following, which should be modified to include the option -nojit.
Eg: Command=(c:\program files\oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin\jrew nojit classpath.
     a.     assistants\dbca\dbassist.cl
     b.     assistants\dbma\dbmig.cl
     c.     assistants\ifa\ifa.cl
     d.     bin\owm.cl
     e.     ldap\oidamdin\oidadmin.cl
     f.     network\tools\netasst.cl
     g.     network\tools\netca.cl
     h.     owm\install\instelogin.cl
     i.     owm\install\instowm.cl
This (-nojit) is the only modification required to enable the configuration tools. After these changes the configuration tools like Net8CA and DBCA can be launched from the start menu.
Note: if your Oracle server is already installed and running but configuration tools are not running then just edit these files mentioned above (from a to i) and then launched configuration tools, they all will work.
Thank you
Amit