Cant create Database using dbassist

[trogen]

And how do I check for other ORacle processes running on the background?
I did a ps and all it showed me were the 2 processes, one for the sh and the other ps
Is that where Im supposed to see Oracle processes too?

[oradbadmin]

You spoke abot a .bash_login file. You on a LINUX platform not on a UNIX (HP or SUN)!!!!

[oradbadmin]

It's depend from the platform

If you are on LINUX

ps aux | grep ora

[trogen]

Im sorry, I am on Linux!
Yes I am on Linux,
does that make a lot of difference?

[enoel2]

Linux. Yes, it makes a difference. I've got to drop out
of this discussion, I don't know bash or Linux kernel
or memory parameters at all.

Good luck.

[trogen]

ok, I did that, logged in as user ORACLE
i dont see any oracle processes running.
One thing though,
I make changes to the .bash_profile, but when I do a reboot, I dont see the changes take effect.
For instance, I set
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/...
export ORACLE_HOME

but then when I reboot and do an echo $ORACLE_HOME
I see nothing.
SO its obviously not reading the profile file from the users home directory, but somewhere else,
any ideas???

[oradbadmin]

there is not a big difference fore the concepts but for the location of the file you have to modify.
However those are the parameters you must have stted before installin Oracle:

SHMMIN 1
SHMMNI 100
SHMSEG 10
SEMMNS 200
SEMMNI 70
SEMMSL 100

The values are indicative!!! Those is what i can suggest you.
If you have not setted those paramenters you won't ever be able to build and run an instance.
I hope to have helped you

[enoel2]

There is a system-wide .profile, which is usually in /etc,
but I'm not so certain in Linux. But it really doesn't matter,
because the system-wide .profile doesn't get executed
*after* yours.

Here's a suggestion (and this is in Korn shell syntax, similar
but not exactly the same as Bash). Manually set your
environment, either in a set-env script or at the command
line:
export ORACLE_HOME=/whatever/full/path/is
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:.:
export ORACLE_SID=<sid name>

Before you run the installer echo these values:
env | grep ORACLE
to make sure they're set.

In the *same* window (that is important), now run the installer.

The other option is to build the database yourself. The wizard is
notorious for this kind of problem. There are scripts out there
that will build the db, you'll have to edit them a bit. There's a
good set of scripts on the O'Reilly Oracle Database Admin book.
I might have one floating around here, as well. I'll look.

[oradbadmin]

Even if you try to build the instance manually you'll get the same error because Oracle does Know how many resources you machine has!!
Settigs I've got are not alternative but REQUIRED before running an Oracle installation.
However I forgot a parameter above and it is the follow:

SHMMAX

However look for Linux installation guide in the section linux environment.
If i remember well there tou should find all what i've suggested you.

[trogen]

OK Ive made the settings to the PATH as told.
Do I need to declare ORACLE_SID too before creating the database?
I also made the changes to the shmmax and all those variables.
Now do I need to run the Installer or the dbassist program?
Im trying to create a database.
Would installer do that too?