Has anyone successfully installed and configured Tomcat 5 with windows98? I keep getting the typical space error even though I have maxed out the memory settings. If I must use an older version of Tomcat, that's OK, I just need to know if it is even possible to use Tomcat 5.
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Well, I no-longer have a win98 system running and don't use Tomcat 5 so feel free to ignore me. Exactly what error are you getting and when does it show up? Can you preset the Environment so the startup batch files can skip all those involved manipulations? Did you have Tomcat 4 running on this system? Which Java SDK is installed? How much memory does your system have? Bill
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Hi Bill, I am getting the "out of environment space" error when I try to run startup. This is my first attempt at installing Tomcat. I use it at work, and it would be handy to have on the home computer as I am beginning to work with servlets and JSP's. I am using the j2sdk1.4.1_05 from Sun. I will find out exactly how much RAM I have and let you know (If it helps, we are talking about an IBM Aptiva purchased in 1999). Thanks for your help.
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That is normally fixed by increasing the Environment memory allocation for MSDOS console windows - you can set that quite high. Exactly which memory settings are you talking about? Did you make those settings the default for all MSDOS console windows? You are running the startup.bat from a console window and not just double-clicking the bat file I hope. Bill
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Success! I had been changing the environment setting of the startup.bat and shutdown.bat files (following the advice from Marty Hall's Core Servlets book). When I changed the setting on my ms-dos window, no more space problem. I also had been double clicking the startup.bat icon (again as suggested by Marty), using the console window has solved the problem. I guess the Marty Hall book assumes windows 2000 or higher. Thanks for your help.
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As I recall, after win98, the system automatically expands the Environment memory as required, so you are probably right about the book assuming later versions. I had Win98 on a laptop - it would occasionally "spontaneously" reboot itself - no idea why! Bill
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