hey there,

thanks for your reply. I was able to login and start the database. I can show the instance name at this point, but I haven't done anything else with this just yet. Looking forward to learning more about oracle with this box:

Code:
[openindiana:~] oracle% sqlplus system/secret
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sat May 26 18:44:02 2012

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select instance_name from v$instance;

INSTANCE_NAME
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jfora