Re: Personal Oracle 7 Install Problem

From: Loyal Barber <lbarber_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: 1996/10/13
Message-ID: <3261420D.448_at_ix.netcom.com>#1/1


Ed Gryga - Marquette University wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of installing Personal Oracle 7 for Windows 95, that I
> downloaded from www.oracle.com. My install went OK, except at the very end, I
> received the following error message:
>
> Error in initializing the Starter Database.
> Please see the file C:\ORWIN95\RDMS72\TRACE\BUILD.LOG
>
> The BUILD.LOG file is as follows:
>
> Connected.
> ORA-09242: smscre: error creating SGA
> OSD-04106: Unable to allocate memory with VirtualAlloc.
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
> DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-09243: smsget: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04101: invalid SGA: SGA not initialized
>
> I do have all the componets of Personal Oracle installed and available for use.
> When I try to start th Data Base I get the following message:
>
> ORA-9242: Cannot Start Oracle 7 Instance
>
> I did notice the 2nd error message in the BUILD.LOG
>
> "OSD-04106: Unable to allocate memory with VirtualAlloc."
>
> I have 16MB of RAM. Do I have enough memory ?
>
> Is there something I need to do with the *.ora files ?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Gryga
> Marquette University
> E-mail: grygae_at_vsm.csd.mu.edu
Do you have virtual memory turned on? What all are you running when you try to start it. I have run it (albeit slowly) with as little as 12MB RAM. Loyal Received on Sun Oct 13 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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