Personal Oracle 8i Install Instructions

This is a newbie question, so please be tolerant.
I've downloaded Personal Oracle 8i for NT, but I cannot seem to find any installation instructions for it. Could somebody please stick my nose in them?
Will this product run in Win 2000 Professional?
Thanks in advance!

try looking at the documentation posted at http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/8i_personal/content.html
hope this helps.

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Free Personal Oracle 9i install error originated by a download problem

So that we may better diagnose DOWNLOAD problems, please provide the following information.
- Server name:
http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/8i_personal/content.html
- Filename:
A91514-01_oracle9i
- Date/Time
11/29/2002
- Browser + Version: AOL 8.0
- O/S + Version: Windows ME
- Error Msg:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/inprise/vbroker/CORBA/Object
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.backend.Host.<init>(Host.java:437)
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.ui.UIHost.<init>(UIHost.java:151)
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.ui.ProgressOnlyHost.<init>(ProgressOnlyHost.java:72)
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca.getHost(Dbca.java:123)
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca.execute(Dbca.java:82)
     at oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca.main(Dbca.java:144)
Exception in thread "main"
The seed database was not installed. Any clues.
Would appreciate very much.
Lev Vaynberg,
Oracle Developer/DBA.
Last place of work: Conseco Finance Corp in St. Paul/MN

Zarmia
The best thing I advise you to do when installing Oracle 9i onto GNU/Debian is to carry a search on the OTN newsgroups for the keyword 'Debain'. I found that there were quite a few previous posts which explain in considerable detail the processes which should be followed when installing Oracle 9i onto Debain. Failing that, if you carry out a Google search for "Oracle 9i on Debian", you will there quite a few web pages which provide information of installing Oracle 9i onto Debian.
Hope this helps
Harish

WebDB for Windows NT for Personal Oracle 8i

I have Personal Oracle 8i installed on my notebook and would like to install WebDB for 8i for training purposes. I have a older O'Reilly book about WebDB.
Is there an archive download for WebDB for 8i still available?
This is a similar question to Ashok Harnal about Windows 2000.
Richard Isaacs

Sandy, I am up and good to go. I had no problems with getting Oracle 8i running after I removed and then reinstalled the app - with the automatic programs in my system tray DISABLED or TURNED OFF. If Net8 Config Assistant and Net8 Easy Config did not load during install - you will not be able to get the application running, although after install you receive a message stating that these two files are recommended but not required. Remove and then reinstall Oracle with your tray(bottom right of the taskbar) items disabled. Good luck!

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Is possible to install Personal Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 in network?
What about license?

Clayton:
The Installation Guide for 10gR2 section for Solaris OS contains the instructions for setting up the kernel variables in Solaris 10. First, they talk about /etc/system in Solaris 8 and 9, then how to use command "prctl" in Solaris 10.
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Klara

How to install Developer 6.0 Personal Oracle

When I install personal Oracle 8 (trial)on my pc (Windows NT 4 sp4)I don't have problem and it work well. The problem is when I install developer 6.0,(in a different folder) I can't log on any applications any more.
Thank for your help
Patrice (Quebec)
[email protected]

IF you do not use that "miserable" Personal Oracle 8.04, but using the far much better Personal Oracle 8.1.5 you can mail me at [email protected]
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Problem in installing Personal Oracle 8 and develper 6i on win me

I install personal oracle 8 on my home computer . First time it
install perfectly . After restart my computer i start database,
It mounts and then i use sql + to connect and make some queries.
all is working perfectly ..
Then after i install develper 6i forms on my computer it intall
completely with no errors. After restart my computer i install
develper 6i reports on my computer which is hardly half install
then make some errors .,. which is about a file "msvcrt32.dll".
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like ....." The ORACLE80.exe file os linked to missing export
NZ*).dll:nztpvec" ORA-12203 CANNOT ATTACH TO ORACLE 8 .
Well i m using Windows ME. and i dont want to reformet and
reinstallation of all other softwares on my computer.
Well if anybudy know what is that error and how to solve it .
Please let me know , i will ever thankfull to them
Well i know my softwares is perfect. there is no errors in CDS
and software.
Anwer

I dont think Oracle 8.1.7 works on Windows XP.

Discoverer 3.1.x Install on NT with Personal Oracle 8i

Can Discoverer 3.1.x be installed on a Windows NT machine that already has Personal Oracle 8i (8.1.6) installed on it? If so, how?
The Discoverer Installer posts some contradictory error messages when I try to do this.
First, if I try to install Discoverer to a separate ORACLE_HOME, the Installer tells me that the Installer does not support multiple installations and that Discoverer must be installed in the same ORACLE_HOME as the existing Oracle8i.
But when I rerun the installation trying to use the existing Oracle8i ORACLE_HOME, the Installer tells me that this ORACLE_HOME directory is already being used for "Oracle 816 Production" and that "It cannot be used as an Oracle home for 'nt'".
This is an odd contradiction. IMHO, it seems that Discoverer and Personal Oracle 8i would be a rather natural pairing, and that Oracle Corp would be interesting in having these 2 products be able to co-exist on the same machine.
The Install.wri notes (July99) do indicate that Discoverer 3.1 cannot be installed on the same machine as Personal Oracle 8.0.3 but can be installed alongside 8.0.4. Also, in another posting (http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum16/HTML/000117.html) in this Discussion Group, it would appear that Discoverer 3.1 can be installed with Oracle 8i, but how?
(As a footnote: I would definitely prefer to install Discoverer into a separate ORACLE_HOME from the Oracle server.)
Thanks for any clarity on this situation.
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Hello Jerry:
There are two possible ways to deal with this issue:
1. Install Discoverer into the first (Default) Oracle_Home on your machine.
2. Install the RDBMS into another ORACLE_HOME.
Discoverer cannot be installed into a non Default Oracle_HOME.
Also...
In this scenario you can do the following.
In the Oracle Installer you write DEFAULT_HOME in the NAME field and the you enter a directory different from the one Oracle8i is installed in. In many cases this does the trick. But you can get into a scenario where you still gets the errors message. In this case you exit the installer, starts a Dos Prompt and enter regedit, to edit the registry. Here you
find the key
\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oracle\ALL_HOMES\DEFAULT_HOME. You change the value of this key to DEFAULT_HOME and then start the installation again.
I hope this helps.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by japfelba ([email protected]):
Can Discoverer 3.1.x be installed on a Windows NT machine that already has Personal Oracle 8i (8.1.6) installed on it? If so, how?
The Discoverer Installer posts some contradictory error messages when I try to do this.
First, if I try to install Discoverer to a separate ORACLE_HOME, the Installer tells me that the Installer does not support multiple installations and that Discoverer must be installed in the same ORACLE_HOME as the existing Oracle8i.
But when I rerun the installation trying to use the existing Oracle8i ORACLE_HOME, the Installer tells me that this ORACLE_HOME directory is already being used for "Oracle 816 Production" and that "It cannot be used as an Oracle home for 'nt'".
This is an odd contradiction. IMHO, it seems that Discoverer and Personal Oracle 8i would be a rather natural pairing, and that Oracle Corp would be interesting in having these 2 products be able to co-exist on the same machine.
The Install.wri notes (July99) do indicate that Discoverer 3.1 cannot be installed on the same machine as Personal Oracle 8.0.3 but can be installed alongside 8.0.4. Also, in another posting (http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum16/HTML/000117.html) in this Discussion Group, it would appear that Discoverer 3.1 can be installed with Oracle 8i, but how?
(As a footnote: I would definitely prefer to install Discoverer into a separate ORACLE_HOME from the Oracle server.)
Thanks for any clarity on this situation.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Problems with Personal Oracle Instal on WinME

Hi,
Can someone throw some light on this, please?
I am trying to install Personal Oracle on a machine running ME.
When I use Personal Oracle for '98, it stops with a message about the paths to Source and Destination of the software. I checked many times about the availability of the directories, but it does not go forward. I tried the JREW = ... in the COMPATIBILITY95 section of the WIN.INI without success.
When I try to install Personal Oracle for Win2K, it apparently installs the EE, and tries to configure the network. Here it asks for the name of the host. When the server and the client are to be on the same machine, what is the need for a network connection?
That aside, what is the correct version to install on a ME machine? Are there any work-arounds for these problems?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
[email protected]

I have the same problem in ME
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Installing Personal Oracle under Win NT4

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THANKS.

please checkout for the latest installer coz we too had a problem. we downloaded the latest installer from the oracle site and now it's fine

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Can i able to Insall Personal Oracle on Windows Me?

Nirali,
It is possible. I did in my home pc. It is working fine.
Answer available in this discussion forum. Trust me.
H
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How to install Personal Oracle 7, Developer 2.1, Designer 2.1

I am a college student who has had coursework in database design and management.
I came across Personal Oracle 7 for Win 95, Developer 2.1, and Designer 2.1.
I am having trouble getting sucessful installation beyond Personal Oracle. Help?!? Documentaion?!?

I am in the same boat also. In the middle of coursework and attempting to run these academic versions of Oracle. There is a patch somewhere but I do not know where. Sorry!

Connecting Personal Oracle 8i and Developer

Hi
The following works for me.
The critical files required are tnsnames.ora, sqlnet.ora and listener.ora.
Put sqlnet.ora, listener.ora and tnsnames.ora in the ORACLE\ORA81\NETWORK\ADMIN directory.
Put sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora in the
ORAWIN95\NETWORK directory.
The following are how the files should look.
This is assuming the PO 8I installation defaults were taken (SID is ORCL, and GLOBAL DATABASE NAME is ORACLE).
Listener.ora file:
LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC0))
(PROTOCOL_STACK =
(PRESENTATION = TTC)
(SESSION = NS)
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521))
(PROTOCOL_STACK =
(PRESENTATION = TTC)
(SESSION = NS)
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 2481))
(PROTOCOL_STACK =
(PRESENTATION = GIOP)
(SESSION = RAW)
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = c:\Oracle\Ora81)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = Oracle)
(ORACLE_HOME = c:\Oracle\Ora81)
(SID_NAME = ORCL)
tnsnames.ora file:
EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC0))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SID = PLSExtProc)
(PRESENTATION = RO)
ORACLE =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVICE_NAME = oracle)
(SID = ORCL)
sqlnet.ora file:
TRACE_LEVEL_LISTENER=OFF
TRACE_DIRECTORY=C:\ORACLE\ORA81\NETWORK\LOG
trace_level_client = off
trace_directory_client = c:\orawin95\network\log
#sqlnet.authentication_services=(NONE)
names.directory_path=(TNSNAMES,HOSTNAME)
#names.default_domain=world
#name.default_zone=world
automatic_ipc = off# c:\oracle\ora81\network\admin\tnsnames.ora
TRACE_LEVEL_CLIENT=OFF
TRACE_DIRECTORY_CLIENT=C:\ORACLE\ORAWIN95\NETWORK\LOG
Create a shortcut for listener (C:\Oracle\Ora81\BIN\LSNRCTL.EXE).
Start developer.
Start PO 8i.
Start Listener and enter "start".
You should now be able to connect to Oracle
from Developer using scott/tiger and using oracle as the database name.
Good Luck.
Jim
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Hi.
I too had problems getting Developer 6 to connect to Personal Oracle 8 on Windows 98.
Thanks to the information Jim posted I am now able to connect.
I followed Jim's instructions with three exceptions.
First exception - On my machine the sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora file belong in the ORAWIN95\NET80 directory rather than ORAWIN95\NETWORK directory.
Second exception -- Personal Oracle 8 was installed in C:\ORA81 rather than C:\ORACLE\ORA81 so I adjusted pathnames as needed.
Third exception -- I made backup copies of the sqlnet.ora, tnsnames.ora, and listener.ora files that the installation had created before I started editing them.
My first attempt to start the listener failed with TNS-01152 message which indicated that the addresses provided to listener were not valid.
I replaced the listener.ora file in my C:\ORA81\NETWORK\ADMIN directory with the one that the installation had created then attempted to start the listener again.
The listener started successfully. I attempted to connect from Developer6 using scott/tiger@oracle. Developer6 connected!
Here is what my listern.ora file looks like:
# LISTENER.ORA Network Configuration File: # C:\ora81\network\admin\listener.ora
# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.
LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1))
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = i8q4v6)(PORT = 1521))
(DESCRIPTION =
(PROTOCOL_STACK =
(PRESENTATION = GIOP)
(SESSION = RAW)
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = i8q4v6)(PORT = 2481))
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = C:\ora81)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = ORACLE)
(ORACLE_HOME = C:\ora81)
(SID_NAME = ORCL)
Good Luck.
Debbie.
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Installation Problem Personal Oracle 8.0.4 on Windows 2000

When trying to install Personal Oracle 8.0.4 on a Windows 2000 machine, i get an Error:
"Unable to delete the NT Service for the SQL *Net V2 Listener".
No previous installation of Personal Oracle is present on this machine as it's a newly installed OS.
Any Help would be appreciated

I tried installing Oracle 8i Personal Edition in Windows 2000. The installer loads and it start installing the files, except when it goes half way through the installation, it quits. I don't know if this is a bug in 8i Personal Edition or not. Because I am unable to install the software on my machine.

How to Download Personal Oracle

After trying several times to download Personal Oracle 9i, I perused this discussion group seeking a solution to a problem that I was having and finding that others were encountering the same problem.
Perhaps you have encounted a difficulty in unzipping the Personal Oracle downloads... I and others have reported the fact that there are mutltiple CRC errors in the downloaded file when you try to unzip it.
Well, after analysing the problem I have found a solution and surprise surprise it is marketedly similar to a problem I discovered with Oracle over 3 years ago... a problem which their tech support insisted had to do with the tuning of my companies server... well now I am not so sure that the problem is not inherant within Oracles handling of LOB's on the web. But instead of arguing an old point... let me detail for our users HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL there ORacle products.
Step by step:
1. Download the product
2. Download a second copy of the product and save it with a slightly different name
3. Unzip both copies with Winzip 8 or better. You must unzip them into seperate directories. Save the unzip log which tells you which files contained CRC errors.
4. Examine both logs and choose the version that contained the fewest CRC errors.
HERE IS THE SECRET... as in the problem my old employer discovered years ago... the errors occur randomly in LOB downloads... therefore the chance of the same file being corrupt in both downloads is very low.
5. The log will tell you which directory is being extracted and which file was corrupt... search the log for the string CRC in Wordpad... then find the missing file in the alternate tree and copy it to the working copy.
6. Repeat for each corrupt file.
7. when completed you can install the product from your working directory.
Its not pretty... but it works.
After searching for work for the last two months I thought it would be a good idea to refresh my skills with the latest version of Oracle... thank you Oracle for forcing me to use my skills to analyse your problems and develop a wotkaround... I now appreciate Postgres even more... I just wish there were employers who recognised that open source software is better supported than commercial products.
Anyone have a job lead in Denver for a developer with 20 years experiance?

Hello...
Simply amazing what it takes to download the 9i.
In fact I am still trying out your tip, and have had to work on 3 different ZIP sets so far!!
Still have one or two files that refuse to download right! (Especially the big ones).
I hope I get closer and closer to the final good set of install files soon!
Anyway, from what you say, it sounds like Oracle employs certain airheads...

Report (release 6.0.8.15.0) failure on tcp/ip connection to personal oracle 8.1.5

hi,how can i resolve this problem?
i use personal oracle with a tcp/ip connection and if i run a
report(developed with report builder oracle) i receive a
compiler error .if i run this same form on the server,the form
has no problem.
the only different is a client's call with tns (the listner is
start up)
thank and sorry for my bad english

Hi, how are you?
I read your file. On my computer, I got the same problem. First I installed Personal Oracle 8.15 version under window 98. The oracle home is e:\orale\ora81. Then I installed Form 8i in the orale home e:\oracle\ora. After installation, there are two SQLPLUS. One is under ora81 and another is ora. The one which is in e:\oracle\ora81 is working and it can bring up the database. Another one and Forms don't work. They can not connect to the local database. It means my client which is under e:\oracle\ora can't connect to my server which is under e:\oracle\ora81. I think I shoud set up the connection in tnsnames.ora by using Net8 Easy Config. I did it. It failed. Can you help me?
Thanks.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by harry dhillon ([email protected]):
No, you shouldn't have to to.
If you have Personal Oraacle 8 running properly on your PC, then you can just connect to the database from Developer V6 using your normal username/password. For example, if you log on to SQLPLUS as scott/tiger, then the same will work for your forms and reports. You don't even need to enter a connect string. I have it working OK on a Windows '98 PC, with Personal Oracle 8i, and Forms v6i.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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