Re: Asking for help in installing Personal ORACLE

You need at least 4 MB of additional memory.

"wei he (martletts)" <etlwihe_at_etlxdmx.ericsson.se> wrote:

>Hello,
 

>I am trying to install Personal ORACLE on my laptop and have
>experienced some problems. If you know how to get away with
>them, could you please drop me anote. I am sorry for posting
>such a long message. I think this could make the problem
>much clear.

>PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
>--------------------
 

>There is enough disk space on my PC and the memory status
>is as follow:

>Memory Type Total = Used + Free
>---------------- ------- ------- -------
>Conventional 640K 50K 590K
>Upper 27K 11K 16K
>Reserved 384K 384K 0K
>Extended (XMS) 3,045K 217K 2,828K
>---------------- ------- ------- -------
>Total memory 4,096K 662K 3,434K
 

>Total under 1 MB 667K 61K 606K
 

>Largest executable program size 590K (604,496 bytes)
>Largest free upper memory block 15K (15,792 bytes)
>MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

>I got a warning at the beginning of the installatio, which
>said:
 

> There may be insufficient memory for installation.
 

>As the free memory is the maximum I can get, I carried on
>the installation despite the warning.
 

>When the installation nearly finished, another message was
>shown, said:
 

> There was an error in starting up the Starter Database.
> Please see the file C:\ORAWIN\RDBMS71\TRACE\BUILD.LOG.
 

>In the log file, it said:

>---------------
> Sometimes while installing Personal Oracle the starter
> database may not be built because of lack of memory. After
> installation follow these steps to build controlfiles:
>
>1)In a DOS box or from the File Manager:
>
> delete ctl1.ora if present from your ORACLE_HOME\DBS
> and ORACLE_HOME\RDBMS71\ARCHIVE locations delete
> wdblog1.ora and wdblog2.ora if present from ORACLE_HOME
> \DBS directory
>
>2)In Windows fire up sqldba32.exe
>
>3)At the "SQLDBA>" prompt run the install2.sql script
> located in your ORACLE_HOME\DBS directory. For example
> if my ORACLE_HOME was c:\orawin I would type:
>
> _at_c:\orawin\dbs\install2.sql
 

>4)You will be prompted for the password for the internal
> account.
 

>5)if you get no errors you are all set and can exit sqldba32.exe.
> if not look up the errors in the error codes manual and
> debug the problem.
 

>ORA-09368: Windows 3.1 Two-Task driver unable to spawn ORACLE
>ORA-09368: Windows 3.1 Two-Task driver unable to spawn ORACLE
>DBA-00302: not connected to a database
>DBA-00302: not connected to a database
>ORA-09368: Windows 3.1 Two-Task driver unable to spawn ORACLE
>----------------

>I followed steps (1) and didn't find the files mentioned.
>When I tried step (2), an error message appeared, said;
 

>DBA-00314: unable to attach to default host.
>ORA-09368: windows 3.1 two-Task driver unable to spawn ORACLE.
 

>I couldn't find the ORA-09368 in the Error Codes Manual.

>Thank you for reading the message. I appreciate any response.

>Wei
 

>etlwihe_at_etlxdmx.ericsson.se
 

>
Received on Thu Aug 24 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST