Databases on drives other than Oracle Home

This is in regards to an Oracle8
Enterprise NT installation.

Here at Cy Childs Software Developers we have nobody that we consider to be a DBA, but, we are trying to get Oracle8 Enterprise for NT up and running. This may go beyond installation support so please forward this e-mail if it does. I am confident that I have gotten Oracle8 Enterprise Edition installed properly and let the Oracle Home default to C:\orant\ and selected the none option for building a database. I would like the Oracle to reside on the C:\ drive and its data to reside on the D:\ (just another hard drive on our machine). I have created a database on the D:\ drive but I have no concept on what I need to do to configure things to be able to use the enterprise manager. Do I need to go out to DOS and use the server manager? What are all the issues that I may confront by trying to do this? Is this a rare case, or do many entities install Oracle at one place and have thedata reside in another?

If you can point me in the right direction so that I can choose Enterprise Manager and enter a username of "administrator" and a password of my choosing I would be forever thankful. I realize this is a tall order, but we really need the help.

Thanks!

Mike Murphy

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