Cant connect ot Oracle 9i

[Guest_imported]

I just installed Oracle 9i on Redhat Linux 7.2, and my Database Configuration Assistant failed and I have no idea why. I have over 40gb of hd space and 640 MB of memory and 1gb of swap space. So why did my Database Configuration Assitant fail? When I installed in in XP, everything worked perfectly...

Also, when I so the following this is what I get:
[oracle]/bigOne/Oracle/oraInventory/logs> sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Aug 29 23:04:44 2002

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

SQL> connect /as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> alter user system identified by manager account unlock;
alter user system identified by manager account unlock
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available


SQL> connect system/manager
ERROR:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory


Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
SQL>

So what is going on? Please help!

 

[ThomVF]

The ORACLE database is not starting up.

Look for a file called &quot;alert<db-name>.log&quot; under the $ORACLE_HOME (db name is your database name)

There should be startup failure errors in or near the end of that file.

Let us know what you see.
Thomas V. Flaherty Jr.
Birch Hill Technology Group, Inc.

http://www.birchhillgroup.com

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
If the database creation failed you will not have anything to connect to, obviously, so no users either including sys or system..

Try isolating what caused the DCA failure..did you follow exactly the installation instructions in the
readme file(s), particularly about the environment variables and kernel modifications?