Re: 10g RAC install on firewire failing

Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am following Jeffrey Hunters doc
> (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10g.html) for
> installing RAC on two nodes using a firewire drive for storage.
>
> All steps have worked perfectly up until I try and create a db and
> instances using the DBCA. It crashes with the error that Oracle is not
> available and shared memory realm does not exist.
>
> I've tried this several times and get the same result each time. Has
> anybody else experienced this problem.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mark.

Your error has nothing to do with FireWire. It has to do with the fact that the instance is not started.

Assuming Windows open a DOS window and type: NET START <oracleservice_name>

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