Oracle 9i - Install problems on Win XP?

Hello list,

Wondering if anyone may know of problems on install of Oracle. I've heard,
(a lab guy in the IT dept at community college, also looking at Google
search), of bad problems. The fellow at the community college said to be
sure to backup anything I didn't want to lose on my machine before
installing.

Also, I was told that the Oracle install includes Perl, Java and some other
things. I'm not too happy to learn that as I don't want the install to put
an older version of Perl on my machine. I guess to avoid that, I could do a
custom install and choose not to load Perl or Java.

I just don't want some software install to mess up my computer. (This is for
a class on SQL using the Oracle database that I was thinking of taking).

Thanks for any help someone may provide.

Chris

Re: Oracle 9i - Install problems on Win XP?

> From: "Chris Charley"
> Date: 2005/09/04 Sun PM 06:27:52 CDT

> Hello list,
>
> Wondering if anyone may know of problems on install of Oracle.

Technically, this is off-topic. But, to answer your question, no,
I've not had any issues. My work network has two network installs of
Oracle clients (8i and 9i), two versions of Perl (5.8.0 (client
compatibility) and 5.8.7) and we are able to switch to whatever is
needed without any issues by just modifying the correct ENV variables (PATH
and the Oracle vars).

> Also, I was told that the Oracle install includes Perl, Java and some other
> things. I'm not too happy to learn that as I don't want the install to put
> an older version of Perl on my machine. I guess to avoid that, I could do a
> custom install and choose not to load Perl or Java.

I don't recall seeing Perl in the directories under the Oracle install,
but I've not installed 10g yet. As for Java, you can't skip it, as it's
part of the base install. Just modify your post-installation PATH
so that the Java you want is first...

>
> I just don't want some software install to mess up my computer. (This is for
> a class on SQL using the Oracle database that I was thinking of taking).

If you're taking a class on ANSI SQL, you could probably install just
about any database, and not worry about how Oracle may affect your
system...

> Thanks for any help someone may provide.
> Chris

Please, in the future, keep your questions DBI/DBD related on this list...

HTH,
amonotod

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Re: Oracle 9i - Install problems on Win XP?

> Please, in the future, keep your questions DBI/DBD related on this list...
>
> HTH,
> amonotod


Yes, I don't know why I didn't realize this

Thank you for the information

Chris