You wouldn’t think that installing something would be so hard would you?
I’ve tried reinstalling ‘Oracle Express Edition’ on this laptop - all went well until the final stage of configuration where upon it hung.
The same thing has occured with Oracle 10g - all is well until it tries to startup a database, and then it hangs with nothing in the log files (or at least none of the log files I can find).
There is obviously something on this laptop that doesn’t not agree with Oracle. But what?
It wouldn’t be so bad, but this seems to occur all the time with Oracle, its 9g installer was not much better, it’s 8i installer refused to run on certain types of HP desktops we had and its linux installer was no better.
If you are a DBA, these things would probably be no obsticle, but for the casual developer….