Oracle 8.1.7 Installation hangs on NT4, P3 machine

Question

Hi,
I am trying to install Oracle EE 8.1.7 on my NT-4, Pentium 3 box and the universal always hangs at 19%.
When OUI hangs, the status message on the installer window says that its installing 'Oracle Provider for OLE DB 8.1.7.0.0'
and that its copying RefCur.vbp.
The installation log in C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\installActions.log has the following final entry:
     DllGroup = false
Calling action w32OcxRegActions1.7.1.5.0 RegisterOCX
     OcxPath = G:\oracle\ora81\bin\OraOLEDB.DLL
     WorkingDir = G:\oracle\ora81\bin
The oraInstall.out file in the same directory has the following single entry:
toLoad is D:\TEMP\OraInstall\ocxReg.dll
The oraInstall.err file is empty.
I tried replacing the symcjit.dll with the one from JavaSoft but that hasn't fixed the problem. Something tells me this may not be a problem with a bad java dll.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how I should fix this problem.
thanks,
- Sachin

Answer 1

Hi Sachin!
I had the same problem.
I tried to follow the instructions in
"Oracle8i Installation Guide for Windows NT"
pp. 8-6, 8-7 :
Manually Removing All Oracle Components and Services fron Your Computer.
I have not succeded until I added some extra step.
In point 5, I removed the following keys as well:
MTS
MTS.1
MTS.Oracle
After this, and following all the other instructions, the install
suceeded.
Good luck,
Erzsi