Re: 9.0.1 Install errors - Help?

I had been installing it under an account I had made that I had added to the local administrator group. Just for grins, this morning I logged in under the "administrator" account, and tried making a DB again, using the DB Config Assistant. No joy - same error. At the time of the error, there is 2.6 GB left on the drive, so it doesn't seem to be a space problem (the entire installed DB is under 1 GB when it's done). The installer seems to be making the directories of interest with "full control" privileges for "everyone", so it doesn't look like a permissions problem with the folder that has the .DBF file in question. Hmm. This is frustrating. Maybe I should reinstall the entire thing under the administrator account. Don't see why that'd work, though, since the account I used to install it is a member of the administrator group.

Thanks for any ideas.

Mark

"Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA702FF2378_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> Mark,
>
> a few questions that may help :
>
> - are you installing as an administrator user - or local admin, or power
> user ?
>
> - do you have correct privs to the folders in question ? I believe the
> install manual mentions the correct prive to have on the data file
> locations and also for the softweare locations.
>
> - is there enough disc space available to create the files - the
> ORA-27046 error indicates that the file has been truncated or partially
> overwritten. It could also indicate it is only half created - but I'd
> expect another error about being out of space.
>
> I installed 9.2.0 myself on a Win 2000 Professional PC only last week
> and had no problems - I was logged in as administrator to do it though -
> because the instructions say so :o) I don't have these problems on my
> Unix boxes though ....
>
> The create controlfile fail is the main problem I'd say - without it,
> you are usually up that famous creek without a canoe, never mind a
> paddle. Track down the reason for not being able to create it, and you
> are well on your way to fixing the rest of the problems - all of which
> relate back to not having a Control file.
>
> Howard may well chip in with more info when Australia wakes up, Morning
> Howard, because he deals more with Windows that the rest of us :o)
>
> This might help, might not - good luck.
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Norman Dunbar
> Database/Unix administrator
> Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
> mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
> Tel: 0113 289 6265
> Fax: 0113 289 3146
> URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brandyberry [mailto:mdbrandy_at_insightbb.com]
> Posted At: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 5:31 AM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: 9.0.1 Install errors - Help?
> Subject: 9.0.1 Install errors - Help?
>
>
> OK, I have two separate Win2000 machines that I've tried to install
> Oracle
> Enterprise 9.0.1 on now, and I'm getting the same weird errors. One of
> the
> machines is Win2000 Pro, and one is Win2000 Advanced Server. I get
> through
> the entire installation up to running the Database Configuration
> Assistant.
> While it tries to make the database, it gets to the "Creating and
> starting
> Oracle instance" stage, and then the errors start. First, I get:
>
> SNIP.
>
Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 08:32:55 CST