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From: "James Belton" <jbelton@freenetname.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: dbstart problem
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:27:37 -0000
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You should have a file in your ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory called init081.ora

If it is somewhere else, copy it to this directory.

If it don't exist, there should be a sample initORCL.ora file in this
directory. Copy this to the new name (init081.ora) and try the startup
again.

Regards

James


cdweb@my-deja.com wrote in message <81lc3l$s2g$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>I haved installed oracle8i for linux.
>When I run dbstart, report a error message "Can't find init file for
>database "o8i", "o8i" is SID.
>
>Could someone give me a help? thanks.
>
>
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