installing form 6 on 8i

[minhaz]

can someone kindly show me the procedure how to install form 6 on 8i under win98 or win 2000 server family pls?

[jovery]

If you just want to know how to install RTM it's to involved to discuss here, however, if your having a particular problem with the install thats a different story

Regards

[minhaz]

i installed first form6 and after that 8i; but it was displaying me following message> ORA-12154:TNS: couldnot resolve service name.

[stecal]

When Forms was installed, it created its own version of tnsnames.ora in the ORACLE_HOME for Forms. Make that file the same as the tnsnames.ora file you have for the 8i program files.

If your Forms was installed under c:\orant, for example, then you are looking for c:\orant\net80\admin\tnsnames.ora.

The tnsnames.ora file for the 8i product can be found under the ORACLE_HOME\network\admin directory. If your 8i software was installed under d:\ora816, for example, then you are looking for d:\ora816\network\admin\tnsnames.ora.

Instead of managing two versions of this file, you can set an environment variable called TNS_ADMIN. TNS_ADMIN would be set to wherever you want to keep the Net8 configuration files. In your case, simply set it to d:\ora816\network\admin and your Forms product will always reference the tnsnames.ora file you use to connect to your databases via 8i.

[minhaz]

Thanks Stecal, thanks Jovery; its working properly now.