Owner's Manual

38 Installing Oracle 11g R1 Database (Single Node)
16 In the Confirmation window, click OK to create the database.
NOTE: The seed database creation may take more than an hour to complete.
When the database creation procedure completes, the Password
Management
window is displayed.
17 Click Exit .
18 Ty p e :
export ORACLE_SID=dbname
where dbname is the global identifier name that you defined for the
database in DBCA.
19 To verify that the database is operating, perform the following steps:
a Ty p e sqlplus "/ as sysdba" to display the SQL> prompt.
b Type the following query at the SQL> prompt:
SELECT * FROM v$instance;
c If the database is not running and you receive an error message,
type
startup at the SQL> prompt to start the database instance
on the node.
Creating the Seed Database Using Oracle Automatic Storage
Management (ASM)
If you configured your storage using Oracle ASM, perform the following steps
to create a seed database with the DBCA:
1 As the user oracle , start DBCA by typing:
dbca &
2 In the Welcome window, click Next .
3 In the Operations window, click Create a Database and click Next .
4 In the Database Templates window, click Custom Database and click
Next .
5 In the Database Identification window, type a Global Database Name ,
such as
oradb , and click Next .
6 In the Management Options window, click Next .