Re: PO7 ORA-00205 during startup after install?

In article <3qqtbg$if5_at_dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> gordonh_at_acslink.net.au (Gordon Hooker) writes:
>markha_at_zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Mark Hays) wrote:
>
>>I just finished doing a an install of WIN32s (this works, I tested it
>>with FREECELL), and a complete install of PO7. When I try to Startup
>>the default data base oracle7, I get the following message:
 

>>ORA-00205 error in identifying control file
>>'%RDBMS71_CONTROL%\ctl1.ora'
>>ORA-09202: sfifi:error iedntifying file
>>OSD-01002: unable to open file (OS 2)
 

>>I cannot find any file on my system named ctl1.ora. I am at a loss
>
>Mark,
>
>I don't know about PO7, but you get exactly the same error with 6 on
>DOS. I found the best way to set up the initial database is to do
>after the installation.
>
>Re-install the initial database and see what happens.
>
I found in the Oracle 7 Release Notes a note about a warning that the oracle install may have a problem building the control files. I remembered getting such a warning during the install. I took the steps outlined there, Delete wdblog1.ora, wdblog2.ora and ctl1.ora if they exist. Then start SQL*DBA. Then run _at_c:\orawin\dbs\install2.sql. This did indeed fix the problem and all is now working. Received on Mon Jun 05 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST