From: tgagne@wide-open-west.com   
      
   I've never installed Oracle, and have just worked my way through getting   
   9i installed on RedHat 9.   
      
   When I try to start it up I get the following:   
      
       [oracle@cod1 oracle]$ sqlplus /nolog   
      
       SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Sat Apr 24 23:37:05 2004   
      
       Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.   
      
       SQL> connect / as sysdba   
       Connected to an idle instance.   
       SQL> startup   
       ORACLE instance started.   
      
       Total System Global Area   42742804 bytes   
       Fixed Size                   451604 bytes   
       Variable Size              41943040 bytes   
       Database Buffers             204800 bytes   
       Redo Buffers                 143360 bytes   
       ORA-00205: error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for   
       more info   
      
   I'm not exactly sure which file they're talking about, but I did find   
   something that looked interesting:   
      
       [oracle@cod1 oracle]$ cat rdbms/log/alert_oracle.log   
       Sat Apr 24 23:37:14 2004   
       Starting ORACLE instance (normal)   
        Disable cache advisory with old cache parameters   
       Sat Apr 24 23:37:14 2004   
       Running with 1 strand for Non-Enterprise Edition   
       ...   
       Sat Apr 24 23:37:15 2004   
       ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT   
       Sat Apr 24 23:37:16 2004   
       ORA-00202: controlfile: 'ora_control1'   
       ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status   
       Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory   
       Additional information: 3   
       Sat Apr 24 23:37:16 2004   
       ORA-205 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT...   
       Any help, pointers, etc., would be apprecated.   
      
   So why am I doing this?  My background is Sybase but I'm not excited   
   about their XML support.  I've only read about Oracle's and wanted to   
   try it out.   
      
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