When I try to run the configurator I am told that "JAVA_HOME is not installed" and sure enough there is no JRE directory under Hyperion_home\Common

???

Your JAVA_HOME might be created but it might not have set. If you are UNIX put JAVA_HOME entry in .profile or Windows try to use set to set your java home...

setjavaruntime.bat would do it but somehow the install did not create a jdk or jre directory so there is nothing to point to.

First - I understand that some corporate firewalls can not open the previous post due to its title, please excuse me. The content of the post was:

setjavaruntime---bat would do it but somehow the install did not create a jdk or jre directory so there is nothing to point to.


I am installing on a Vista 64 bit machine (Intel x86 not Itanium) and I notice that there is a JRE directory in my "download_location" where I install from. I notice that under it there is a directory for win32 winAMD64 and winI64 but not one for win64. Any Ideas why?


I thought I read in a previous post that although not approved for Vista 64 that people had no trouble running on it????


I also was not able to install the Oracle Application Server from the download site as it will not run under Windows 6 (Vista) - any suggestions for the simplest App and web server for a development laptop????


Finally, my original install was interrupted by a forced reboot (Thanks Norton) when I was not watching. I repeated the "new install" and the log(s) read successful completion as they did when I tried a "ReInstall". Still no JRE. I had been thinking of unistalling and starting over but the unistall program will not run as there is no JRE. Do I need to manually clean out the registry? How does the install program know what was previously installed?


Finally, should I just give up on Vista?

Most people will tell you to use a standard platform for a few reasons:
1) Presuming you have some type of support arrangement with Oracle you will need to be on a supported platform to have them answer service requests
2) It's just going to be a much smoother install
3) No corporation is going to use an unsupported platform.

This being said there are some posts on the Oracle forums that deal with getting the suite to work on Vista.

As you are also on 64-bit you will need to perform some more manual steps if you are looking to use 64-bit app servers.

I think once you get certain things running you will also run into issues with IIS 7 causing problems which may be the bigger road-block.

You can probably learn a lot about the system through your trials in attempting the install. If you want much easier installation then use one of the supported OS's (such as Windows 2003 Server R2) or even Windows XP Pro. You will also want to use IE6 or IE7 as your web browser.

Good Luck,

John

OK I had hoped to do a quick install on my laptop as-is with Vista and then had already bought a second disk drive on which I was going to use Oracle VM and build it "right". Sounds like that will simply be an easier way to go - I'll start with an all XP install then maybe try to add a linux version just for kicks.

But still - any idea what happened to the JRE??

I'm sure the JRE is missing because the installer isn't intended to work on Vista. You could put a JRE in the proper path and likely get a little further.

Regards,

John