Do a software only install, and then use the database configuration
assistant to create your database as a separate exercise (though I've only
encountered this problem on 9i, and never had it with 8i). I find a clean
install of Windows 2000 helps, too.
Regards
HJR
"chriscollinson" <christopherjohncollinson_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have just installed oracle 8.1.7 on a windows 2000 server. The
> machine is a Pentium 4. We renamed the symcjit.dll file to get the
> thing to start.
>
> We went through a "typical" install. All goes well until it gets to
> the database creation part.
>
> Creating and starting oracle instance - succeed
> Copying database files - succeed
>
> Initializing Database - Fails, comes up with the ORA-03113 Error.
>
> The server has just been built so no other version of oracle on it.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
Received on Wed Apr 02 2003 - 13:04:36 CST
