Re: Missing control file running Oracle 8i on Redhat Linux 7.0

From: Preston Crawford <prestoncREMOVESPAMBLOCK_at_crawfordsolutions.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:31:43 GMT
Message-ID: <jBL76.2243$8O.256415@dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net>

"David Fitzjarrell" <oratune_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:93nr0d$2f2$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> This may be a dumb question but have you created a database? If not,
> you won't have any controlfiles to access. If you have, and your
> controlfiles are now missing you'll need to perform the following steps:

Well, that's the tricky part. Reason I'm even at this point is because I tried to install Oracle 8.1.6 on Redhat Linux 7.0. Apparantly this distribution has a newer version of glibc that Oracle's installer is incompatible with. So the install died during the part where it creates the default database. I go into the Oradata/Oralin folder (oralin being my SID) and I can see a bunch of .dbf files. Not sure if this means I have a valid database created or not. Any way to tell?

<<good instructions snipped>>

Thank! I'll try all that tonight and let everyone know how it goes.

Preston Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 16:31:43 CST