ahhh yes... I think that was the Open Desktop which actually had a builtin Ingres database in it! ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:30 PM To: mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxx Cc: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx; bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx; peter.schauss@xxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Running Oracle and SQL Server on the same box I've never installed Oracle from floppy, but I have installed SCO Unix from floppy. 96 floppies as I recall. And it was not too unusual for the 95th floppy to be bad. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On 1/11/06, Mark Brinsmead <mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxx> wrote: Niall Litchfield wrote: Ooh. Oracle on SCO. That (shudder) brings back some memories... Or more accurately, recurring nightmares. Did you ever have to install it from floppy disks? (Oracle7 for SCO was about 150 floppies, as I recall...) I just *love* listening to people whine about the imperfections of recent versions of OUI... ;-)