General Question - Why is Oracle such a pain to install on a Windows 2000 server

IS this by Design? I have to use Oracle for one of my clients and I cant get 8.1.6 , 8.1.7 or 9 to install correctly for anything. Im confused about things like why the database wont start, or it says its started under services but of course its not. I sometimes (like once) can get the management console to come up but I usually have my fingers crossed and grabbing my lucky rabbits foot. Whats up? Am I "oracle challenged" here or do others experience the same issues?
Any help is welcome.
thanks in advance.

Hi!
This (http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=159333.1) guide on metalink also does the trick.
Regards Mikael
I feel your pain. I've probably installed the RDBMS on 25 separate Windows servers in the last 5 years (versions 7.3 through 9.2) as well as iFS, iAS, etc. For a novice, and even a pro, it can be a hair pulling experience. I've virtually given up trying to do upgrades and fortunately I've been able to schedule downtime for those servers requiring upgrades. Even for "clean" machines it isn't always 100% reliable. My experiences installing Oracle on Linux have been harrowing, and it is only for someone that is truely committed. My best advice, is get yourself a true test machine that you can completely redo, and test installing it. For Windows, if an install fails (or if you want to "get rid of an older version of Oracle all together" before you upgrade), then do the following (do not do this on production machine, or with anything that you want to keep, and it is not sanctioned by Oracle, and no warranties what so ever).
1) De-install all Oracle products using Universal installer.
2) Remove all Oracle entries from the path statement
3) Delete all of the files in the Oracle directory. There will be problems with some files in Bin.
4) Using Regedit delete the software registry keys for Oracle (hkey_local_machine\software\oracle).
5) Delete any left over entries in the registry for Oracle services (hkey_local_machine\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ora*)
6) Delete all of the oracle files in program files\oracle
7) Reboot
8) Delete the files in the oracle directory that couldn't be deleted in step #3 above and #6 (if any)
Oracle should now be gone, and you should be able to test another installation.

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