If this is Standard Edition, it can be caused by Oracle creating an invalid
entry in the init.ora file. If memory serves me well, I believe it is the
log_archive_dest parameter that is incorrect. It uses EE syntax for that
parameter.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Do a software only install, and then use the database configuration
> assistant to create your database as a separate exercise (though I've only
> encountered this problem on 9i, and never had it with 8i). I find a clean
> install of Windows 2000 helps, too.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
> "chriscollinson" <christopherjohncollinson_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1cb1c5f6.0304020504.a838ad3_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed oracle 8.1.7 on a windows 2000 server. The
> > machine is a Pentium 4. We renamed the symcjit.dll file to get the
> > thing to start.
> >
> > We went through a "typical" install. All goes well until it gets to
> > the database creation part.
> >
> > Creating and starting oracle instance - succeed
> > Copying database files - succeed
> >
> > Initializing Database - Fails, comes up with the ORA-03113 Error.
> >
> > The server has just been built so no other version of oracle on it.
> >
> > Any suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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