This could mean Oracle is not running. Can you try starting it ? What
operating system are you using?
"newbie" <newbs__--_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bg9stm$lsho9$1_at_ID-158805.news.uni-berlin.de...
> I installed Oracle 8i
>
> The database I created was called test1
>
> It gave this during install
> ----------------------
>
> global datbase name : test1
> database SID : test1
> internal account password: oracle
> SYS account password : change_on_install
> SYSTEM account password : manager
>
> I went to SQL Plus & tried to launch it.
> No combination of username / passwords as suggested by Oracle
> above worked. I get the error
>
> (I am not sure what to install at HOSTSTRING. I assume it is the
> hostname I tried blank as well)
>
> EROOR:
> ORA-01034:ORACLE not available
>
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 30 2003 - 21:55:42 CDT
