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   Michael Willer to John De Lello   
   Re: Installing Oracle 9 in WinXP   
   22 Feb 04 00:42:10   
   
   From: noreply@mail.tele.dk   
      
   John De Lello wrote:   
   > Hello Everyone,   
   >   
   > I am trying to install Oracle 9 on my Windows XP Pro laptop so I can play   
   > around. I downloaded the 3 ZIP files specified on the Oracle site   
   > (92010NT_Disk1.zip) and unzipped them into their respective Disk1, Disk2,   
   > Disk3 folders. I then run the setup.exe in Disk1, the drive churns for 10-15   
   > seconds, then nothing happens. No error messages, nothing. I've tried   
   > running the autorun, I get the Splash logo with the menu, I select install   
   > and the same thing happens. There's plenty of disk space (25gb) so I'm not   
   > sure what I am doing wrong.   
   >   
   > Dell Inspiron 8600   
   > Pentium M 1.8   
   > 512mb RAM   
   > 40gb drive   
   > WinXP PRO SP 1   
   >   
   > Any ideas anyone?   
   >   
   > Thanks   
   > JD   
   >   
   >   
   did you expand in a directory with spaces in the full path? Move disk1-3   
   to \tmp (\temp) and run again.   
      
      
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   Michael Willer   
   Oracle & J2EE architect   
      
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