Oracle 10g on Windows XP Professional SP2

Question

I have problem installing oracle 10 g on Windows XP Professional. When the installation goes to "Configuration Assistants", it shows three options, Oracle Net configuration Assistant, Oracle Database Configuration Assistant and iSQL *Plus Configuration Assistant. However, the status of "Oracle Net Configuration Assistant" keep showing "In progress.." for more than 6 hours. It seems the program is not responding, then I stopped the program, uninstall it and tried to install it again but the installation still stopped at "Configuration Assistants". I did the installation/uninstall 3 times already. Could anyone help and provide some solutions?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

Thanks Eric Jenkinson for the reply.
I tried the link listed above and I have some troble installing the sample database. Here are some problems.
1) During the"completing database creation process" (About 85% finished), a window pops up and it said please see the following file for details.
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\dbca\sample\emConfig.log
in tnhe log file I see the following in the last few lines
oracle.sysman.emcp.util.PlatformInterface serviceCommand
: Waiting for service 'OracleDBConsolesample' to fully start
: oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfig perform
: C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\cfgtoollogs\dbca\sample\emConfig.log
oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfig perform
: Stack Trace:
oracle.sysman.emcp.exception.EMConfigException: start「database control」
     at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMDBPostConfig.performConfiguration(EMDBPostConfig.java:569)
     at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMDBPostConfig.invoke(EMDBPostConfig.java:181)
     at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMDBPostConfig.invoke(EMDBPostConfig.java:150)
     at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfig.perform(EMConfig.java:155)
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.util.em.EMConfiguration.run(EMConfiguration.java:430)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
2) Then I tried to enter the Enterprise Manager Database control
by entering http://home:1158/em
However, the URL changed to
http://home:1158/em/console/database/instance/repDown
I opened the portlist.ini and got 1158
Enterprise Manager Console HTTP Port (sample) = 1158
(home is the PC name)
In the web page, it said the following
"Enterprise Manager is not able to connect to the database instance "
Anyone have any idea? Thank you so much.