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: Just installed Oracle 8i Personal on my win nt 4.0 sp 4 workstation which is a compaq p166 with 64mb memory. 90% into the install I began to get a slew of memory errors which I chose Ignore on. The rest is identical to this post from somebody else in Aug of 1999. Any help would be greatly appreciated. : Thank you. : jc : : After installing ORACLE 8.0.4.X on Windows NT Server 4.0 with Service Pack 3, : : When iam starting the database with "STARTUP" at SVRMGR prompt it's giving the following : : error message : : : : SVRMGR> startup : : ORACLE instance started : : Total System global Area 136936108 bytes : : Fixed size 47788 bytes : : Variable size 56655872 bytes : : Database Buffers 79896576 bytes : : Redo Buffers 335872 bytes : : ORA-00205: error in identifying control file. check log for more info. : : when i shutdown the database it's giving the error : : SVRMGR> shutdown : : ORA-01507: database not mounted : : ORACLE instance shutdown : : SVRMGR> : : : I tried to create control manually and got the following error message. : : SVRMGR> CREATE CONTROLFILE DATABASE PMK RESETLOGS; : : CREATE CONTROLFILE DATABASE PMK RESETLOGS : : * : : ORA-01503: CREATE CONTROLFILE failed : : ORA-01565: error in identifying file : : '%ORACLE_HOME%\DATABASE\DBS1%ORACLE_SID%.ORA' : : ORA-27041: Unable to open file : : Unable to open file : : : : How to create CONTROL FILES ?? : : Any one Know the solution for this ?? : : Thanks : : Khan