Patrice, I've installed 9iAS successfully, what I've done is just run the installer from the CD and on a new machine (virgin OS install) I selected all the defaults, and guess what everything work. In turn 9iAS created an ORACLE home in which there is a 806 and an iSuites directory, apparently when they say the 806 home what they refer to is that directory, the 806 directory seems to be where the tool set (Forms/ Reports) are housed and the iSuites where the Apache server and that stuff is. On a machine with a whole bunch of other ORACLE products, such as DEV 1.6 (FORMS 4.5 / Reports2.5), Designer 2000, Developer 6i and Personal Oracle 8.1.7, I've chosen a different home for each product and everything works fine. Of course a bunch of stuff is duplicated, but who cares Hard drive is cheap, the main thing is that everything works as advertised. When I tried installing everything on default Oracle homes nothing worked and it was a nightmare. My experience from the installs. Good luck Tavo "Boivin, Patrice J" wrote: > FYI, > > I logged a TAR with Oracle last week or so because one Metalink tech had > said in passing that Forms and Reports had to go into its own, separate > oracle_home. This follows from a previous TAR I had logged with them, > simply asking which products work best together. > > I had read the installation manual for iAS and had earlier found this: > > Note: Be sure not to install Oracle9i Application Server in an Oracle_home > containing other Oracle products, including the database. Such an > installation could overwrite shared components, causing the products to > malfunction. (on p. 3-5, 4-5, 5-5). > > Now, in Oracle Reports Developer Getting Started - Release 6i for Windows, > it says: > > Reports Developer 6i must reside in the default oracle_home. > Reports Developer 6i and the Oracle8 or Oracle8i server must reside in > separate oracle_Homes, although they can reside on the same physical > machine. > Similarly, in a web application deployment, Report Server and Oracle > Application Server must reside in separate oracle_homes, although they can > reside on the same physical machine. (p.1-16) > > Forms and Reports 6i happen to require an Oracle 8.0.6. oracle_home. > > This posed a dilemma: how can I install iAS in the default home, when many > of its components require access to an "origin" database. I do not plan to > use iAS with 8.0.6., I plan to use it with 8.1.7.. > > I thought I would have to install Forms and Reports 6i first, remove the > tidbits that the Oracle Universal Installer installs by default, then > install 8.1.7., and then install the iSuite components. Of course by the > end of this tortuous process there were errors. > > I had a different Metalink technician this time, who told me to ignore what > the first technician had said, and to just install iAS based on the > installation manual, never mind the other worries that I had. > > So, I am ignoring the Oracle Reports Developer Getting Started manual, and I > am installing based on the iAS installation manual. > > Hopefully that will work. > > /begin rant > I still wish the Oracle techs could have told me which versions of the > various products are concurrent, they just keep insisting that all their > products are certified to work together. All I wanted to know was which > oracle_home type do the various products use? Forms and Reports 6i requires > an 8.0.6. home, Developer6 used an 8.0.5 home, etc. the Metalink techs do > not appear to have a list, they didn't understand my question. When I > logged a TAR on this I received three e-mails telling me that my TAR had > been passed to different people, in the end the last tech told me that > products sometimes are released together, but that it is not all that > important, because everything is certified to work together. > > I can't shake the feeling that iAS is a bundle of things that were just > slapped together. Seeing the old installer pop up during the installation > doesn't help remove that impression. Hopefully when the next release comes > out it will install in something other than an (old) Oracle 8.0.6. > oracle_home. Since it's called Oracle9i iAS, maybe the Forms and Reports > Servers will go into a 9i oracle_home (?). > /end rant > > (this is my impression, not my employer's etc. etc.) > > Sorry if this comes across as a little harsh. > > Regards, > Patrice Boivin > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) > > Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes > Technology Services | Services technologiques > Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique > Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Boivin, Patrice J > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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