Re: 10g RAC install on firewire failing

DA Morgan wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am following Jeffrey Hunters doc
> > (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10g.html) for
> > installing RAC on two nodes using a firewire drive for storage.
> >
> > All steps have worked perfectly up until I try and create a db and
> > instances using the DBCA. It crashes with the error that Oracle is not
> > available and shared memory realm does not exist.
> >
> > I've tried this several times and get the same result each time. Has
> > anybody else experienced this problem.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Mark.
>
> Your error has nothing to do with FireWire. It has to do with the
> fact that the instance is not started.
>
> Assuming Windows open a DOS window and type: NET START <oracleservice_name>

Strike 1 ... the article is describing an install on linux.

Strike 2 ... the crash that occurs while dbca is running is common for people attempting to follow that url.

Strike 3 ... not looking at the url referenced.

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Received on Tue Oct 04 2005 - 14:41:25 CDT