Re: QUESTION: Install frustration on Windows

BD wrote:
> >so if I were you I would just forget about the "nice" little Java based assistant and create the net files by hand as well.
>
> Yes, I imagine I could get some of it going - it's the 'delta' between
> having the service running and making the instance available that I am
> hazy on. On UNIX, it's easy - pfile + ORACLE_SID + "startup nomount" =
> instance. Windows' obscurities will be the death of me.
>
> BTW - Just had to clobber the OUI - hung solid on the Net8 config.
> Guess I'll have to see what kind of rubble I've left behind. ;)
>
> Hell with it - I'll try _one_ more time to clean up the mess and get 8i
> up - after that I'm doing this with 10. The test is more about proving
> out a new topology for our app servers, so as long as they can hit _a_
> database, I really doubt it'll matter. ;))

Maybe your oracle image can't find the init file. The default is %Oracle_home%/database,
if not explicid set in the registry. Another way is to create a init file in this dir with an
ifile directive to point to the real admin/<sid>/pfile/init.ora

regards

s.kapitza Received on Thu Mar 02 2006 - 01:16:10 CST