Help a newbie....

From: Sam Chepkevich <samc_at_aloha.net>
Date: 1997/12/03
Message-ID: <3485F91F.8302A5A4@aloha.net>#1/1

I just installed Oracle Server 7.3.2.1 for solaris and am trying to get started. Please don't say RTFM, because I have none. If I go into srvrmgrl and try to start an instance as such I get the following:

Oracle Server Manager Release 2.3.2.0.0 - Production

Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1994, 1995. All rights reserved.

Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.2.1.0 - Production Release With the distributed, replication, parallel query and Spatial Data options
PL/SQL Release 2.3.2.0.0 - Production

SVRMGR> connect internal
Connected to an idle instance.
SVRMGR> startup nomount pfile='hinoc.ora' ORA-07302: smscre: create failure in creating ?/dbs/sgadef@.dbf. SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory SVRMGR> exit
Server Manager complete.

If I try a different tact:
Oracle Server Manager Release 2.3.2.0.0 - Production

Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1994, 1995. All rights reserved.

Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.2.1.0 - Production Release With the distributed, replication, parallel query and Spatial Data options
PL/SQL Release 2.3.2.0.0 - Production

SVRMGR> connect internal
Connected to an idle instance.
SVRMGR> show ?
MGR-00111: illegal SHOW option
SVRMGR> show -h
MGR-00111: illegal SHOW option
SVRMGR> show

Instance                        local
Spool                           OFF
Timing                          OFF
Termout                         ON
Echo                            OFF
Stoponerror                     OFF
Autorecovery                    OFF
Logsource                       <default>
Maxdata                         20480
Numwidth                        10
Charwidth                       80
Longwidth                       80
Datewidth                       9
Labwidth                        32
Compatibility                   NATIVE
Retries                         infinite
Server Output                   OFF
Autoprint                       OFF
Fetchrows                       infinite
Appinfo                         OFF (USERTEXT : Oracle Server Manager)

SVRMGR> create database hinoc datafile 'hinoc/system1.dbf' size 20M; create database hinoc datafile 'hinoc/system1.dbf' size 20M *
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
SVRMGR> Can someone give me a clue? I have no documentation I have a couple of Oracle books but they all assume the database is running. What else do I need to do?? I want to do some JDBC stuff with Oracle.

Thanks in advance to you Oracle gurus!!! Sam Received on Wed Dec 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CST