Diana,
<SMILE ON>
Get RedHat 7 CD-ROM
Insert into CD-ROM drive
Reboot and answer promts
<SMILE OFF>
In reality. To gut the machine of all Oracle stuff.
1. Delete all the stuff in the Oracle directories.
2. Remove all the Oracle stuff from the start menu.
3. BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY!!
4. If you skipped step 3 go back and do step 3.
5. In regedit, remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/ORACLE key. Then
start at the top of the registry and search for oracle, oradac, and orant
(if that was the tree your Oracle was installed in). Delete the keys you
come to that are associated with these things.
6. Reboot your machine.
Oracle is gone now.
Start your reinstall. I have found the best way to install the Oracle
products is in order of installer version. If you put the
Designer/Developer stuff on first and then add the 8i stuff you should be
able to get it to work.
Seriously if you want to stay away from Windows, Developer 6i is
available for Linux (download from technet). You need to have OpenMotif
www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ loaded before running the installer. The
installer is text mode, but it looks for Motif libs during the install.
HTH
Rodd Holman
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 5/3/01, 2:16:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
Removing Oracle products from NT:
> Hey all,
> I know that this has been addressed on the list before, so if there's an
> archive yet (I've been away for a bit) just point me to it. I made the
> terrible, heinous mistake of 1) installing Personal Oracle 8.1.6 on my
> laptop, which went well, then 2) installing Oracle Developer 6i on the
same
> laptop. I was unaware that Dev does not play with 8.1, as I have been
> fortunate enough not to deal with bloody GUI's for many years now. Now,
> when I try to uninstall 6i, the installer crashes. I can't uninstall the
> DB, because of registry variables that point to the wrong Oracle home,
and
> when I try to manually change them, nothing works at all. Can I just
trash
> the directories, search for all registry variables and remove them?
> Or do I need to format the disk? :)
> Diana Duncan
> TITAN Technology Partners
> One Copley Parkway, Ste 540
> Morrisville, NC 27560
> VM: 919.466.7337 x 316
> F: 919.466.7427
> E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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