I've never installed Oracle, and have just worked my way through getting
9i installed on RedHat 9.
When I try to start it up I get the following:
[oracle@cod1 oracle]$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Sat Apr 24 23:37:05 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
SQL> connect / as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 42742804 bytes
Fixed Size 451604 bytes
Variable Size 41943040 bytes
Database Buffers 204800 bytes
Redo Buffers 143360 bytes
ORA-00205: error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for
more info
I'm not exactly sure which file they're talking about, but I did find
something that looked interesting:
[oracle@cod1 oracle]$ cat rdbms/log/alert_oracle.log
Sat Apr 24 23:37:14 2004
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Disable cache advisory with old cache parameters
Sat Apr 24 23:37:14 2004
Running with 1 strand for Non-Enterprise Edition
...
Sat Apr 24 23:37:15 2004
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Sat Apr 24 23:37:16 2004
ORA-00202: controlfile: 'ora_control1'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Sat Apr 24 23:37:16 2004
ORA-205 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...
Any help, pointers, etc., would be apprecated.
So why am I doing this? My background is Sybase but I'm not excited
about their XML support. I've only read about Oracle's and wanted to
try it out.
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