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Also be sure the check the admin work performed before attempting to install Oracle.

Began Fresh Install of Oracle 8.0.3 on NT4.0. Insert CDRom drive. The machine will "autoplay" the CD and launch the Oracle Installer automatically. At this point I have already made sure to have a 1Gig partition to install the Oracle Server into. I setup NTFS for the filesystem type.

Once the Installer begins :

Select English for language Install into c:\orant (on a single drive machine. If possible, use its own drive completely.

As always, choose a custom install and select the following components :

• · Assistant Common Files 1.0.0.0
• · Java Runtime Environment 1.1.1.0.0
• · Oracle Admin Toolbar 1.4.0.0.0
• · Oracle Call Interface 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle Data Migration Assistant 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle Database Assistant 1.0.0.0.0
• · Oracle Enterprise Manager 1.4.0.0.0
• · Oracle Enterprise Manager Documentation 1.4.0.0.0
• · Oracle Enterprise Manager SDK 1.4.0.0.0
• · Oracle Installer 3.2.2.0.0
• · Oracle Intelligent Agent 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle Net8 -
• Oracle Net8 Assistant 8.0.3.0.0
• Oracle Net8 Client 8.0.3.0.0
• Oracle Net8 Protocol Adapters -
• Oracle Named Pipes Protocol Adapter 8.0.3.0.0
• Oracle TCP/IP Protocol Adapter 8.0.3.0.0

• · Oracle Protocol Adapters (Server Side) -
• Oracle Named Pipes Adapter 2.3.3.0.1
• Oracle TCP/IP Adapter 2.3.3.0.1

• · Oracle Net8 Server 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle OLE 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle Security Server Manager 2.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle Web Publishing Assistant 1.0.0.0.0
• · Oracle Web Server Manager 1.0.0.0.0
• · Oracle 7 Utilities 7.3.3.0.0
• · Oracle 8 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle 8 Documentation 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle 8 Performance Utility 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle 8 Release Notes 8.0.3.0.0
• · Oracle 8 Utilities 8.0.3.0.0
• · Required Support Files (all) -
• RSF 7.2.2.4.3B
• RSF 7.3.3.0.1A
• RSF 7.1.3.3.24A
• RSF 8.0.3.0.0

• · SQL*Net Client 2.3.3.0.1
• · SQL*Net Server 2.3.3.0.1
• · SQL*Plus 8.0.3.0.0

• Should Total up to 325Mb in 35 Products

Choose Install and Answer Questions :

• · Starter Database Options : Custom
• · Leave password for Oracle_Security_Service_Admin as "oss"
• · Install Documentation to Hard Disk Drive (about 70 + Mb)
• · Keep moving mouse around if you havent disabled the screen saver. Since I forgot to disable it the first time thru, the screen saver came on, and when I tried to get if off, Dr Watson came up.
• · Upon completion of the Installer, Database Assistant tries to launch. However, I also got Dr. Watson to appear here, and got a "javaw.exe" error. More info to follow on this.

Because of our friend Dr. Watson, in reference to the java exception error, the story went like this …..

• · I tried to manually run the Oracle Database Assistant. This didnt help. Still got the javaw.exe error.
• · So I rebooted and reinstalled Service Pack 3. This didnt help. Still getting same error.
• · So I loaded IE4.0, with its new java runtime, off of my Web Server CD (D:\msie\32bit\ie3inst.exe).
• Select no for the active desktop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• United States for channels
• Default directory for folder location is fine (…Program Files\Plus!\Microsoft Internet)
• But this didnt help either. Believe it or not, the same error appears.

• · So I tried removing both data Assistant and Java Runtime.
• · Then reinstall both data Assistant and Java Runtime. This didnt help either.
• · Next step was to remove all Oracle and start again. This is accomplished by :
• Went into Control Panel | Services and stopped the TNS Listener
• While still in Control Panel | Services, stop the WWW Publishing Service
• Remove all Oracle products thru the installer
• Remove the remaining pieces, like the directory and installer, thru explorer
• Remove the Oracle key from the registry
• And finally reboot
• This didnt help either. The SAME error keeps coming up.

• · As a last resort, I changed Display Settings to 800 x 600 with 65k colors. (Even though the showed this already). Note that this immediately looked much better. There seemed to be more color depth. (Looking back now, when the original view of the installer comes up, if the graphic is not perfectly clear, dont even waste your time trying to install Oracle 8 !!!!)
• · Tried to Install once more with above setup, (and screen saver disabled, this time !!)
• This seemed to allow completion of the Oracle Installation, but STILL didnt launch the Database Assistant.
• So to be on the safe side, I exited the Oracle Installer, and rebooted.

• · Then explicitly run the Database Assistant to create the new database.

Here are the Options on the Database Assistant :

• · Create a Database
• · Choose custom, that goes without saying …..
• · No cartridges
• · Medium sized instance
• · DB Name : nt8
• · SID Name : nt8
• · Init filename : c:\orant\database\initnt8.ora
• · Password : ******
• · Defaults for all of the next option, except to choose 4 Log File members
• · Accept defaults for all tablespaces except to change the extensions to *.dbf (for consistency with naming with unix)
• · Accept defaults for log file names except for extensions of *.dbf
• · Checkpoint interval of 4000
• · Turn on Archive Log and accept all defaults for it
• · Accept SGA defaults
• · Accept Trace file defaults
• · Save info to batch script as c:\orant\admin\create_nt8.bat

And finally get a cup of coffee, or take a lunch while running the above created script. At a dos prompt, run the c:\orant\admin\create_nt8.bat. This will take about 75 minutes on a 133Mhz NT4.0 laptop machine.

• · Switch to the New Oracle 8 Listener by :

• · Go into Control Panel | Services · Stop the Oracle TNS Listener · While highlighting the TNS Listener, click the startup button and make manual for startup option · Start the Oracle TNS Listener80 instead · While highlighting the TNS Listener80, click the startup button and make automatic for startup option

• · Run SQL*Net Easy Config :

• · Modify such that the name of the SID is "nt8" not "ORCL"
• · Delete Example-???? Listeners
• · Add a new service with the following options :

• Service Name : nt8
• Protocol : TCP/IP
• Host Name : ntdemo
• Port Number : 1521
• SID Name : nt8

• · Exit

• · Run oradim80 from the command line or explorer window. It is located in c:\orant\bin. Edit "nt8" and set the max number of dba’s to be 10.

• · Shutdown and restart the laptop alltogether. This will make the new databases and listeners startup properly, and will properly terminate and/or abandon the old versions with old listener and "ORCL" SID.

• · I forgot to copy c:\orant\network\admin\*.ora to c:\orant\net80\admin directory, so I needed to do that and reboot again.

• · Add environment variables of :

• ORACLE_SID : NT8
• ORACLE_HOME : c:\orant

• · Run Server Manager and launch the product user profiles by doing :

• svrmgr30
• connect system/manager
• @c:\orant\dbs\pupbld.sql

• · ftp to the sco box, and get the weekendunix.exp from the export area, and drop it into the c:\temp directory on the laptop.

• · Create a tablespace of "edumet". Use these options :

• Launch the Storage manager from Enterprise manager window tools
• Use a name of "edumet"
• Datafile of c:\orant\database\edumet_1.dbf size of 1 mb.
• Make sure autoextend is on
• Increment of 10240k
• Max is Unlimited

• · Create a user "edumet". Use these options :

• Launch the Security Manager from the Enterprise manager window tools
• Use a name of "edumet"
• Default profile and password is ******
• Use a default tablespace of "edumet" and temp tablespace of "temp"

• · Modify the init.ora file for the Nt8 database. Needs to include 3 lines not originally included. They are to make the rbs public, set the cursors to 200, and files.

• · In a dos window, bring up the import utility for 8.0.3 This will not work in gui mode properly. (Takes about 25 minutes)

• cd \temp
• imp80
• edumet/edumet
• filename is weekendunix.exp
• Bring in just the edumet objects
• Yes to ignore errors and defaults for all else.