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From: Martin Dohse <mdohse@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Server installtion
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:08:36 +0200
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have a look at your file system (just to make sure to see some datafiles 
); if you use a shell that does not know the setenv command (that's the 
case for the bash) then instance creation by dbca will always fail. Let 
dbca only create the scripts, then edit <SID>.sh by changing the line 
that begins with setenv to something like export ORACLE_SID=<SID>. You 
should also make sure to have the directories $ORACLE_BASE/admin/<SID> 
and $ORACLE_BASE/oradata/<SID> (or whereever admin and oradata should stay)

Martin