Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-xit-09!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Sybrand Bakker Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 10g server won't start on XP Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:24:08 +0200 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: Reply-To: sybrandb@hccnet.verwijderdit.nl References: <1126718989.016961.131890@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126721647.357956.254590@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1126729984.920710.109760@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.0/32.763 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 17 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:251537 On 14 Sep 2005 13:33:04 -0700, "Jeff C" wrote: >This may be promising. Yes, I am using DHCP. I notice a certain >ip addr hard coded in tnsnames.ora (and listener.ora) blah.101 and >today I note my ip addr seems to be blah.102. Maybe I was just >luck in the past and always got assigned the same address? Anyway, >I can edit those files and change the address, but I would sure >hate to have to do that every day.... Oracle 10g won't allow you to install it on a DHCP computer. You need to install the local loopback adapter, and configure that to a dummy non-routable address. I assume you were sleeping while installing? -- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA