RE: newbie sqlplus ?

I'm a little confused by your post.

I'm not sure if this is where you are going wrong but not so long ago, I failed to make the distinction between the database and the oracle software.  

If you have deinstalled/deleted the oracle binaries (all files in $ORACLE_HOME) then there is no way you can create a database.  

You first have to reinstall the binaries.

I would then launch dbassist and delete any old databases that oracle 'thinks' are there. ...I believe the installer looks at the /etc/oratab file for references to databases. ...after that you can create a database.  

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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:10 PM
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Well, since I already went through the deinstall option and also deleted the $oracle_home, is there something else I can do? I'm trying to reinstall the db but i'm getting a prompt asking me if I want to upgrade or migrate the old db at /db/oracle/... (strange since i had deleted that folder). Can i just ignore this option and proceed w/ the install w/o the install going haywire? Can I still delete the old db w/ dbassist after the install?

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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:30 PM  

Launch $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbassist and delete any database you have created.

Then launch the installer from your oracle cd and select deinstall option to deinstall the software.

chris
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I'm just going to reinstall Oracle8i and start from scratch. Any docs out there on uninstalling Oracle8i? The only ones I have found are on Windows and they're all saying how Oracle does not completely uninstall. Is this true for Oracle on Solaris? I ran the uninstaller and removed everything but I noticed the oracle home was still there. I ended up deleting it. Is there anything else I need to do?
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:34 AM  

> hi!
>
> in your profile set $ORACLE_HOME to your oracle directory and
> put $ORACLE_HOME/bin in your path
>
> daniel
>
> Les Ayudo wrote:
> >
> > I have just installed Oracle 8i1.7 on solaris 9 (ultra sparc 10) and
issued
> > the command sqlplus and I rec'd a "command not found" error. Is there
> > something I forgt to do before the install? Let me kow if u need more
info.
> > THanks.
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