Re: Oracle 8i installation problem

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Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Trader Jack" <mjaydms_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7xGV5.3822$Ei1.255125_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I installed Oracle 8i Personal on my Windows 98 machine. It is a PII 350
> with 192 MB of RAM.
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> Oracle 8i was provided to me on a CD as a zip file which I unzipped into
> C:\My Documents\Oracle. I ran the setup (typical) and it installed fine
> except one of the optional tools (Oracle Database Configuration Assistant)
> failed. The dbSilentCreate.log file that I was directed to view contained
> the following line:
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> Documents\oracle\starterdb is an invalid command line argument.
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> What caused the ODCA to fail during installation?

The unofficial method you used to install Oracle. Apparently the filename was truncated because it was not quoted. This went haywire just because you installed it in the "My Documents" folder!

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> What are the ramifications of the ODCA failing?

You don't have a GUI to create a database.
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> Is the ODCA necessary to create a database? (I assume not since it is
 called
> an optional tool)
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> I am a total beginner to Oracle. I plan on getting a book to learn it but
> in the meanwhile any help from this newsgroup would be greatly
 appreciated.
>

If you are a complete newbie, and you didn't install the starter database, you are probably not going to manage to create a database manually. Please reinstall Oracle.

> Thanks,
> Jack
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Received on Fri Dec 01 2000 - 01:11:54 CST