Re: Oracle 8.1.7 installlation and startup - help

I can think of quite a few things that likely went wrong. The first being that it appears you didn't read the installation instructions. If not do that now. Then go to /etc/system and set the correct values for shared memory and semaphores and reboot the machine.

Next ... how would you expect to connect to a database that wasn't created? Go to server manager SVRMGRL and create a database. Be sure you follow the instuctions exactly running catproc, catalog, pupbld, etc.

Daniel Morgan

Andrew Golebiowski wrote:

> Please help
>
> I installed Oracle 8.1.7 on a Solaris 2.5.7 box. Due to limited disk
> space - 4 Gbytes, i selected "Minimum" option which installs the
> system but no sample database.
>
> There were no apparent problems during the installation. However, when
> I try to run sqlplus I get the following:
>
> $ sqlplus
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Tue Mar 26 10:00:23 2002
>
> (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> Enter user-name: system
> Enter password:
> ERROR:
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
> SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
>
> Enter user-name: scott
> Enter password:
> ERROR:
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
> SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
>
> Above, I used system:manager and scott:tiger.
>
> I checked the settings in /etc/system and they are as specified in the
> installation manual.
>
> My ultimate goal is to import the database from the dump file. I was
> told to use imp for that. When I run imp, the system logges the same
> error message as sqlplus.
>
> Pleaee advise...
>
> Andrew
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 10:09:14 CST