How do I connect to an idle instance? 1

[Rmcta]

According to my book, if I connect as follows:
Enter user-name: sys as sysdba
Enter password:

I should get "Connected to an idle instance"

but instead I just get:

Connected to:
Personal Oracle9i Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production

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Why? How do I connect to an idle instance?

Thank you for your help!

 

[sem]

You have connected to ALREADY STARTED instance. Somebody (maybe even you) started it up earlier. You may issue SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE and exit. If nobody starts it again before you next attempt, you may connect to an idle instance.

Regards, Dima

 

[Rmcta]

Thank you