Thomas, thank you very much for your reply. I think you are right.. In the meantime I used the zipped version of the binaries a shot, which gives me more controll over the installation process anyway.
On the production machine I can't do a reboot currently. Sincerely Michael Kastner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Bednarz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:38 AM Subject: Re: Binary Dist. tomcat 4.01 Win32 can't find jdk on installation > Michael, > > It seems very likely that your environment variables exceed the maximum > allowed bytes. I am not sure but I think it is 4 or 8 KB. Since changing > the environment variables (such as path, classpath etc) requires a reboot > for system variables, many software vendors do not properly uninstall > software and after a while you have a lot of crap in your path variable. > Clean it up manually (in Control Panel, System Icon, Advanced Tab, > Environment Variables Button), reboot your box and it is most likely that > your JDK is recognised by TOMCAT. > > Thomas > > > At 28.01.2002 18:46, you wrote: > >Why would this happen? > > > >When I try to install jakarta-tomcat-4_0_1.exe on my server I receive this > >error message: > > > >"Couldn't find a Java Development Kit installed on this computer. Please > >download on from http://java.sun.com"; > > > >This is strange, because there is a jdk installed (how else could JRun be > >running on the server)? > > > >The same happened on my development machine. First I thought, that might be > >because I have JDK 1.4.0 on my dev machine. But obviously the reason is > >something else. > > > >Can anybody help me? > > > >What is the installation procedure's "criteria" for a jdk? > > > >Michael Kastner > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
