Cannot create database (Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 7.1)

Hi all!

I installed Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition on Redhat 7.1. The system has plenty of disk space and 256MB RAM, Pentium III. I did all the preparation needed and the install was successful.

Now I'm trying to create the database. Here is what happens: 1. Creating new database using dbassist - hangs at creating datafiles (I know the database creation is slow, but I waited for more than 10 hours)
2. Copying sample database using dbassist - hangs at initializing database (I've noticed that datafiles are already at the right place, but control files are not...)
3. Creating the scripts in dbassist for creating new database and executing scripts (e.g. using svrmgrl) - svrmgrl hangs

I haven't recompiled the kernel. Instead of this I did:

echo 250 32000 100 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
echo 256000000         > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
echo 256000000         > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall

ORACLE_SID is set. There is nothing in alert<SID>.log file.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

Lyubomir Petrov Received on Fri Oct 05 2001 - 19:27:01 CDT