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Oracle Installation in Win XP

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Mitesh Original post #1
Mar 28, 2005 at 3:37 PM
I am installing Oracle in Win XP But it is not working after installing it properly,
Is there any additional setting to made for Oracle 8 in Win Xp
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rajkumar_personal #2
Mar 28, 2005 at 7:47 PM
I faced the similar problem after installing the 8i version

But I switched over to 9i and the problem was solved !
casanova
casanova #3
Apr 1, 2005 at 11:15 PM
Oracle 8i has two releases , 1 for win 98 and other for 1 win nt
The win nt release installs easily on win xp but after u restart oracle will be lost as it gives an error oracle not found.
Oracle 9i is very heavy and it runs well but your system will get slow.
Oracle 8 personal edition is the best and no additional files are required. just give the installation path and nothing else.
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icecoolz #4
Apr 1, 2005 at 11:43 PM
casanova,

Oracle 8i installs on windows XP and works fine without any issues. No idea what ur talking about. As for the system being slow, mate your installing a database so obviously its going to be slow. The versions of Oracle one installs doesnt really matter. You should have atleast 512MB RAM if your going to install a database.

The only difference between personal Oracle 8 and the enterprise version is that I can create only one instance of the database in personal Oracle 8. Apart from that nothing more.

Mitesh,

Could you please be more specific as to what you problem is ? I have installed de-installed Oracle loads of times on different OS'es. Provide as much details as possible please as to what problems you face.