deleting instance on HP-UX

From: Toni Graybill <toni_graybill_at_non.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 17:14:23 -0800
Message-ID: <3A53CE6E.83F48416@non.hp.com>

I have spent all day trying to find some documentation on how to delete an oracle 8i instance on HP-UX. The utility, dbassist, hangs. Can't find any documentation on the error message or an alternate manual process. I'm plunging on & manually cleaning it up myself, but am posting this in the hopes someone "older & wiser" may have a better way.

What I finally did:
Could not get dbassist to delete the db. Same error whether instance open or shutdown (I/O exception in
writeScriptsIntoFile:java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/oracle/product/8.1.5/install/dbrunning.sh")

Deleted it manually. In sqlplus dropped tablespaces. Shutdown instance.

   Deleted:
/opt/oracle/product/8.1.5/admin/cq81_dev
/var/opt/clfy/oradb/dat1/cq81_dev

   set ORACLE_SID=""
   Edit /etc/oratab to comment out sid Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:14:23 CST