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UNIX: How to Create An 8i Database Manually in the UNIX Environment (Doc ID 117424.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.5.0 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Generic UNIX

Purpose

How to create a 8i Database manually in Unix. 

Oracle 8i provides a GUI tool called 'dbassist' which will create a database. 
However, this note describes the steps involved in manually creating the 
database on Unix platforms using Server Manager commands.

 

Scope

Assumptions
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The installation of oracle8i has completed successfully.
The install was OFA compliant in that the environment variable ORACLE_BASE 
was used.  The following directories exist:

	$ORACLE_BASE/admin/TEST/
	$ORACLE_BASE/admin/TEST/pfile
	$ORACLE_HOME/install
	$ORACLE_HOME/oradata/TEST

The new instance to be created is called TEST.

 

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