8.1.6 Installation problem on Solaris 8 ;ORA-27102

Hi,

   I installed a brand new oracle 8.1.6 Product on a new Solaris server (SUN Ultra 1). I used the minimal server install and choose no for starter database.
  I got no errors during the product install. Now I try to create an instance with the installed ORACLE_HOME as the Home but i get the error
ORA-27102 out of memory
SVR4 Error:22: Invalid argument.

the command i was trying after logging in to svrmgrl and connecting as internal was

startup nomount
pfile=/Cse-demo3001/sdmsapp/oracle8/admin/sdmsmex/pfile/initsdmsmex_0.ora

My ORACLE_HOME is Cse-demo3001/sdmsapp/oracle8 My ORACLE_SID is sdmsmex

What do I need to do to get rid of this error . Are there any OS specific tasks needed to be done before I can proceed with ther instance creation.

Thanks in anticipation

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Ravi Alluru
mailto:ravica_at_quixnet.net