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Oracle 10g installation

Hi My OS is windows xp and I am trying to install oracle 10g on my OS but getting this error
"thrown when the IP address of a host cannot be determined"
any help would be appreciated to solve this because I am trying to learn Oracle 10g by my own that why I need this installtation on my pc.
Thanks in advance.

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Joe

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Smruti1

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Thanks JoeZ430 for quick response.
I went through this link
"http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=252780"
Open netinfo and select the node "machines". For convenience I created a copy of "localhost" by selecting it and clicked on the "Duplicate" icon. Then changed "ip_address" to the static address and "name" to a host name of my chosing. Lastly, saved the changes.

but I don't know where I need to look for netinfo because my OS is Windows XP and chnage the IP address using localhost.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

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mglxxx

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Smruti1

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Thanks mglxxx
I have sbc internet provider, so I think it's not a static IP address?
Thanks in advance

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mglxxx

If the PC is directly connected to the internet, i.e. not via a router, it's safe to assume that is getting a dynamic IP address.
In that case I'd go with the solution proposed by harry_hendrata, i.e. configure a loopback adapter with a static IP address
and have the hostname resolve to that address by registering it in the hosts file.

Smruti1

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Thanks harry_hendrata and Thanks mglxxx
I configured a loopback adapter but now I am unable to locate host file (c:\windows\system32\etc\hosts) . I performed these steps---> explorer then C drive \windows\system32 but here I am not able to see etc folder.
Could you please tell me how can I register IP address.
Thanks in advance.

Smruti1

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Thanks to all.
Thanks harry hendrata and Thanks mglxxx
First I configured a loopback adapter with a static IP address
registered it in the hosts file. and now I successfully installed oracle 10g on my pc without any error message.
Thank you very much.

mglxxx

That's good news. Apparently you figured out by yourself that the full path of the hosts file is C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts