The other I wanted to install the Oracle 10g R2 database on our brand new Dell PowerEdge 2950 machine. Well, no problem since I have been doing this for quite some time and I went ahead.
So first grab the latest Oracle installer (10.2.0.1) on Oracle’s website, download the file and unzipped it to my custom installer directory. Then I double clicked the setup.exe which brought up the Dos screen, the screen disappeared and ……… nothing happened!
What’s going on now, I thought and tried to start up the installer again. Same scenario and still no go. Ok, I have had in the past success with going trough the command line and starting the installer from there. Still I have had no success.
All right, after all this is Windows and I might have to restart the machine. But after restarting the machine the installer did not wanted to continue and I was prompted with error mesaages like “oui.exe could not execute…”. Now I was very confused and went to Google to search for any installation issues. No topic, or better said, no solution came up which really helped me. I then went to the Oracle forums and did not find any solution either (just so you see that I really wanted to solve this on my own)…
To make a long story short, I have had success with the installation by moving the installation folder to the desktop and starting the installer from there!
Apparently Oracle does not like some paths on some machines (because on my laptop with Windows XP Pro I have had no problem with the same path as on this Windows Server). This actually brings me to the tuning tip that I got from Oracle stuff where they say that one should change the “TEMP” and “TMP” path in the environment variables to “C:\TEMP”. This should increase the performance of the Windows machine overall.
