Whilst trying to get scripted installs to work, I had dozens of Oracle homes for different versions on a single PC - no problems except if memory serves some environment vars (PATH being the obvious one) "looked" OK, but had reached some limit (256 chars?) and so some things went astray hth connor --- Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Every new Oracle install prepends its oracle_home\bin directory and > nowadays it java_home\bin to the path so that would be a different order > than usual. > I always remove them and have an oraenv.cmd to "augment" the path and set > oracle_home and sid to the correct values when I need them, much like the > oraenv on unix. > > Other than that, I am no aware of any problems, although I have only ever > installed them in the order Oracle8 - Oracle9. > > At 07:59 AM 2/23/2004, you wrote: > >I'm about to reinstall 8.1.7 on this work laptop which already has a > >9.2.0.4 instance on it. Has anyone installed these two products in this > >order? If so are there any gotchas that I should be aware of. I may also > >put 9.0.1 back on as well, but that will be a different story. > > > >Niall > > > > > >********************************************************************** > >This email contains information intended for > >the addressee only. It may be confidential > >and may be the subject of legal and/or > >professional privilege. Any dissemination, > >distribution, copyright or use of this > >communication without prior permission of > >the sender is strictly prohibited. > >********************************************************************** > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Wolfgang Breitling > Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA > Centrex Consulting Corporation > http://www.centrexcc.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ===== Connor McDonald Co-author: "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL - Practical Solutions" - available now web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk web: http://www.oaktable.net email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx "GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But TEACH him how to fish, and...he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day" ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.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 -----------------------------------------------------------------