Re: Oracle 8i installation problem

It looks like you need to go back to the basics of how to set up your environment. I don't think you have your ORACLE_SID set. Oh and startup or startup no mount are what is generally used

Peter

At 04:50 AM 13/06/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I have an Solaris 8 for Intel & Oracle 8.1.7 Rel 3.
>
>I installed Solaris with not much difficulty, but I'm
>having trouble with Oracle.
>
>After logging into svrmgrl I typed
>
>
>
>SVRMGRL> STARTUP MOUNT GATES and it gives me the
>following error
>LRM - 00109: Could not open parameter file
>'?/dbs/init@.ora'
>ORA - 01078:Failure in processing system parameter.
>
>The inittab file looks like this
>
>GATES:/export/home/oracle/OraHome1:Y
>
>I'm actually a SQLServer DBA and totally new to Oracle
>& Unix. Am I missing something here. I find that most
>of the books do not contain much info towards these
>kinds of trouble shooting. Does any one here know of
>any such book.
>
>Thanks,
>gopi
>
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