Re: Help on Oracle install on a Solaris 5.7 box...

Oracle on Solaris uses shared memory segments. You'll have to make sure to configure the shared memory segments before you can start an Oracle database. Also, check the INIT.ORA parameters to make sure that your SGA is not sized too large.

HTH,
Brian

Shivaji Apte wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am desperately seeking help for Oracle installation on Solaris.
> I am using the 8.1.5 version of Oracle 8i and have a solaris machine
> with 1 GB ram (+ 1 GB swap) and 18 GB hard disk.
>
> I have installed the server and the client software. While creating the
> default database,
> I get the errors 'ORA-01034: ORACLE Not available'.
>
> I run the 'svrmgrl' and try to do a 'startup', which fails due to
> 'ORA- 27102 : Out of Memory'.
> Neither RAM nor my disk partitions seems to be an issue (all partitions
> as less than 10 % full).
>
> Has anybody seen this before ? Has any1 any idea what might be going
> wrong ?
> I have installed the recommended packages and patches.
>
> Shivaji
 

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