Oracle Database Discussions

Yes, there's no 9i for Windows Vista (by the way NO Oracle software for Vista Home Edition at all).

Do you know Oracle provides installation guides? I recommended you read chapter 'Software Requirements'.

Werner

9i is obsolete and in desupport ... never has been supported on either a home edition of any Windows software ... never will be ... and will never be supported on Vista.

Might I suggest 11gR1 on a real operating system such as Oracle Unbreakable Linux?

Oracle XE has worked fine on my copy of Vista Home Premium.

You are talking about Oracle 10g Express right? Does it have Apache http server like the regular Oracle?

You may need a static ip on the PC. Your network adapter may be getting IP Address assigned by the router to enable you to access Internet. So you can add Microsoft Loopback adapter and assign static IP Address say 10.0.0.1. Microsoft loop back adapter is not a hardware device. You can just enable it by going to add new device, choose network adapter, select microsoft and select microsoft loopback adapter. then restart and install oracle. This may solve your problem

Hi,

Oracle 9i is not compatible with Windows Vista..
But stilll you can run Oracle XE on it (some features not working like User control etc)

Moreover, U can try installin Microsoft Virtual PC (or VMware or any other virtual machine) on ur system and then install XP over it.. and finally try to install Oracle on Xp running under VISTA... I m experimenting with it today..
before proceeding make sure have enough RAM!

You can also try dual booting XP and VISTA (tutorial at) :
http://tarunreflex.blogspot.com/
http://tarunreflex.wordpress.com/
(caution: People with New Laptops and PC's from HP, dnt try dual booting unless u have USB floppy drive.. go through the tutorials to know more..)

Oracle9i and older, Oracle 10gR1, Oracle 10gR2 older than 10.2.0.3 - these will NOT work with Vista. Microsoft has changed the internals (DLLs and so on) and they are no longer compatible with the way Oracle wrote their program. SO a person needs a vversion that knows how to call the operating system internals ...

You can use "Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3/10.2.0.4) for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 2008" or "Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Express Edition" as they have been upgrded to work with VIsta.

The version of Oracle database that is compatible with Vista - "Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3/10.2.0.4) for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 2008" - does have Apache.

Oracle 10g Express doesn't need Apache. It uses the Listener to intercept the HTTP requests and uses DBMS_XDB and DBMS_EPG to handle te HTTP 1.1 requests.

I believe there are some support issues with that, even without the fact that "9i" has reached EoL and is in extended support only (and only for terminal patch set 9.2.0.8).

It seems the official stance is still to "deny" the use of virtualization in the x86 realm, other than running products on their own Oracle VM - from the OVM FAQ:
Will Oracle support customers who are using Oracle products on other x86 server virtualization environments?
Oracle VM is the only x86-based server virtualization environment on which Oracle products are supported. Oracle customers should refer to MetaLink note 249212.1 for more details.

The Note referred to also states that they have no products certified on VMware environments.