Re: NT Installation Help Needed

Mark Kerzner wrote:
>
> I have a trial copy of Oracle 7 Server for NT but I can't get the database
> to start. I may be having a problem with NT and/or how we installed it.
>
> The software was installed from a workstation with the files residing on
> the server. Should the software be installed at the server? If so, is there
> any client installation that needs to be done?
>
> My trouble starting the database first occurred during installation while
> the installer attempted to create the starter database. Oracle would not
> start and the installation hung until we shut down the DOS window where
> SQL*Plus was being launched. The error is ORA-09352 Windows 32 bit Two-Task
> driver unable to spawn new ORACLE Task. In the control panel, we checked
> the services and found that none of the Oracle services started up when
> booting up the workstation. We managed to create an NT Oracle group and
> accounts and then we manually started all of the Oracle services with the
> exception of the OracleTNSListener. This just won't start no matter what we
> do.
>
> If anyone can offer some help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark Kerzner
> IT/NET Consultants Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

I think you should position your ORACLE_SID string in the registry (HKEY_LOCALMACHINE->SOFTWARE->ORACLE) Check out the syntax of your listener.ora file $ORACLE_HOME\NETWORK\ADMIN
and try to do a

   LSNRCTL

     then issue a START command
     

Still here for more help,
     Philippe (arpege_at_imaginet.fr)