Re: Why don't Oracle start on Win2K?

Well, after blowing it away and starting from scratch, it installed without incident, and started upon reboot and got the database mounted and going.

I was able to configure a default repository and login using the Enterprise Manager. So, this alone is a long way beyond where I got with this same box as a ADS PDC.

It went like the other Win2K server I installed at work with defaults that had no problems.

I kind of did what you said with the user account, but I only have one user account on the box anyway, admin renamed to something else, did the install and left it as that. For now, it works, that is all I care about.

Now I can start doing some of the example in Loney's book with the scripts and table creations to start getting some hands on and learn this stuff.

Half the battle is getting this darn thing to install and work and figure out all of the tools, config files etc..that are specific, then the SQL daily DBA stuff is a whole other story. I tried setting this up on a Linux box, I couldn't even get the installer to run properly and scrapped that platform for now. Once I get the hang of Oracle, I will go back and tackle Linux.

Thanks for the help.
Keith

"Paul Drake" <paled_at_home.com> wrote in message news:3ADBE601.B48EC58A_at_home.com...
> Keith wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the replies. My Win2k box running as an Active Directory PDC
 has
> > been a little strange. Not real confident in the ADS myself at this
 point.
> >
> > I blew away the install and started from scratch and just made a stand
 alone
> > server. I could of removed Active Directory, but figured a clean start
 is
> > best since I didn't have any data yet.
> >
> > I will reinstall Oracle tonight and see what happens this time and will
 keep
> > everyone's suggestions in mind in case I run into any problems again.
> >
> > I get the feeling that Oracle was really designed for Unix with all of
 this
> > lame java console stuff, maybe to go across multiple platforms using
 java is
> > the real point. I guess you need to be a SQL*PLUS guru anyway to really
> > know your DBA stuff, the other tools are pretty slow and not so hot like
 the
> > Enterprise Console under NT. Compared to SQLs MMC manager which is more
> > rubost and designed to run on NT/2000 obviously, the Java Windows stuff
 just
> > don't cut it for me and I haven't been impressed. I guess if a company
 is
> > real serious about their DB needs, they should be on a Unix box that is
> > configured for that one purpose and application.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Keith
> >
>
>
> > I blew away the install and started from scratch and just made a stand
 alone server.
> Good move.
> Here's a trick - create an oracle user account - say "OraDBA" for
> example.
> As administrator - grant this user account local admin for during the
> install.
> login and install the software as this user - just as you would for a
> *nix install.
> (you pick up on these things when you tinker with Linux - its a great
> learning exercise).
> after you get the binaries loaded and patched, configure the services to
> start as this user.
> then - logged in as admin again, revoke local admin from him. Just keep
> the user group.
> See what breaks.
>
> If you want to start/stop services without a password, grant the local
> account (created during the Oracle installation) ORA_DBA to whatever
> user(s).
>
> This stuff is straight out of the platform specific documentation -
> 8.1.7 for NT - off the docs CDROM.
Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 11:32:42 CDT