I didn't think that would work, as I got the error on the very first installation attempt. The service always got hung up in "starting" mode, but now the installer appears to be hung up waiting for it to start. Any other ideas? -----Original Message----- From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Jan 14, 2005 3:48 PM To: davewendelken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: oracle 10g install problem david wendelken wrote: >Getting this error: "Failed to initialize OCR." > >on this step: Creating file '<oraclehome>\cdata\localhost\local.ocr' > >Windows 2003 Standard Edition > >Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2) for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) > >Any ideas? > > The file already exists. Remove it and retry. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l