I suspect that the mandatory reboot has more to do with changes to the environment than the registry. A change to the registry should not require a reboot. Adding a service however may require a reboot, as I the believe that they run in the environment created at boot time. I could be wrong about this, but experience seems to confirm it for me. Jared On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 05:34, Hemant K Chitale wrote: > Because MS has made it a habit to require a reboot ! > I guess their installers always update the "internals" of the [icky/dicey] > Registry > while "foreign" products only touch the public portions of the Registry > > Hemant > At 10:59 AM 03-02-04 -0500, you wrote: > >No reboots needed when installing Oracle on Windows. > > > >Actually, this always puzzled me, that you have to reboot when > >installing MSSQL (kind of "native" product) on Windows, and you don't > >have to do this when installing Oracle ("foreign" product) on Windows. > > > >Igor Neyman, OCP DBA > >ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick > >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:16 AM > >To: Pete Finnigan > >Subject: Re[2]: Will 10g install on any Linux??? > > > >Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 8:33:18 AM, Pete Finnigan > >(oracle_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >PF> Check out Howard Rogers $5000 prize for anyone who will write a new > >PF> installer for Oracle on linux that installs just like windows > > > >You mean complete with multiple reboots? <grin> > > > >Best regards, > > > >Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are > >http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > >Join the Oracle-article list and receive one > >article on Oracle technologies per month by > >email. To join, visit > >http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, > >or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and > >include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > >-- > >Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > >FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > >-- > >Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > >FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hemant K Chitale > Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Professional > http://hkchital.tripod.com {last updated 24-Jan-04} > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------