From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Creating database on Linnux
Date: 2000/07/07
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try doing it the old fashioned way with database creation scripts & server
manager or sqlplus. You should get a decent errmsg then.


HTH
Antoanete Koleva <nantoaneta@usa.net> wrote in message
news:7jf45.16036$lU5.128433@news1.rdc1.nj.home.com...
> Hi guys,
>
> I installed Oracle8i 1.6 on Linux Red Hat 6.1, but unfortunately without
> starter database:(.
> When I started Database Configuration Assistant I choose Typical Creation
 of
> database (then I tried the Custom, but again with no success). After 5
 hours
> working ( or at lest progress bar shows that the creation was going on)
 that
> progress meter on the screen was indicating just 1% completed work. So I
> didn't see any progress in creating that database. It's ridiculous! So the
> database was not created, but even more there's no a message what kind of
> problem is that?
> Two days ago I  was advised to be patient and wait for some more time, an
> hour and more. I follow that advice but the result was the same.
> The machine's Pentium III/500/128MB.
> Any help?
>
> Antoaneta
>
>