Re: Oracle7 Win Demo CD - db Manager won't start

From: Keith Majkut <kmajkut_at_netcom.com>
Date: 1995/06/15
Message-ID: <kmajkutDA8F0I.In6_at_netcom.com>#1/1


In article <3rj4o3$q49_at_spinne.web.net>, Jon Wojkowski <jonwojko_at_spinne.web.apc.org> wrote:
>I have installed the Oracle7 Win Demo CD as per the instructions.
>When I run db Manager, Oracle7 database pops up, I type in the
>password "ORACLE" and I get the error message:
>
>'%RDBMS70_CONTROL%\ctl1.ora'
>ORA-09202:Sfifi: error identifying file
>OSD-01002: unable to open file (OS 2)
>
>Any suggestions?

This probably means that the database wasn't created on installation. The most frequent cause of this is not enough memory. In the discussions I've seen, you'll need to have at least 24mb available(actual+virtual) during the install, but then less when running(see the doc for exact numbers).

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Received on Thu Jun 15 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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