Installing Developer Suite 10g R2 on Windows Vista failed !!

Question

It seems Oracle has a new challenge of producing a new edition of Developer Suite that will install on Windows newest falvour, Vista. I installed Oracle db 11g on my Vista O.S. and everything runs normally. But my Developer Suite 10g R2 failed to launch setup.exe, giving me the following error:
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2. Actual 6.0
Failed <<<<
Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\installActions2007-11-16_06-40-54PM.log
Please press Enter to exit...
Any idea to solve the problem? Or it's all that I have to wait Oracle for an 11g Developer Suite version that is supported by Vista??!
Thanks!

Answer 1

Either your tnsnames.ora file that Forms is using is not set up properly to connect to your database, or else you need to install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter.
I have set up laptops with a Loopback Adapter, so Forms will connect regardless of the Windows computer name. If the computer name is included in the tnsnames entry for your on-board database, then you probably don't need it.
When you installed the 11g database, the installation set up a tnsnames.ora file with an entry for that database. First, try copying the entry into the corresponding tnsnames.ora file used by Forms.
In my system, I have four distinct tnsnames.ora files, each one is a duplicate of the others. Whenever I need to change an entry, I do it in one of them, then do a Save As three times to replace the other three. I use these comment lines at the top of the file to help me:
#--  For reference, save as: C:\oracle\tnsnames___ref.ora
#--  For Forms6i,   save as: C:\oracle\orant\NET80\admin\tnsnames.ora
#--  For Forms10,   save as: C:\oracle\DevSuiteHome_1\network\admin\tnsnames.ora
#--  For SQL Plus10,save as: C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\network\admin\tnsnames.oraWithin the laptop running withOUT the loopback adapter, this is the entry for the on-board Oracle 10 database:
#--  Laptop           Could use:  (HOST = Steve-PC) / 127.0.0.1
ORCL =          (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)
                                  (HOST = 127.0.0.1)
                                  (PORT = 1521))
  (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED)
                          (SERVICE_NAME = orcl)  )  )Note the replacement of the HOST entry from the Windows computer name with the generic IP address for the local platform.