I was able to install Oracle 9iR2 on RH9, however I have not been able to create a database. If anyone knows how to do this I would appriciate any advice.

There are "HOWTO's" available for Oracle at www.tldp.org; maybe there's something in it you could use.

CREATE DATABASE ora9i USER SYS IDENTIFIED BY ora9i USER SYSTEM IDENTIFIED BY ora9i LOGFILE GROUP 1 ('/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/redo01a.log','/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/redo01b.log') SIZE 5M, GROUP 2 ('/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/redo02a.log','/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/redo02b.log') SIZE 5M, GROUP 3 ('/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/redo03a.log','/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/redo03b.log') SIZE 5M MAXLOGFILES 126 MAXLOGHISTORY 10 MAXDATAFILES 1024 MAXINSTANCES 63 DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/system01.dbf' SIZE 500M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp TEMPFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/temp01.dbf' SIZE 500M REUSE UNDO TABLESPACE undotbs DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/undo01.dbf' SIZE 500M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5120K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED; CREATE TABLESPACE users LOGGING DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/users01.dbf' SIZE 50M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL; CREATE TABLESPACE tools LOGGING DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/tools01.dbf' SIZE 50M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL; @/export/oracle/product/9.2.0.1/rdbms/admin/catalog.sql @/export/oracle/product/9.2.0.1/rdbms/admin/catproc.sql CREATE TABLESPACE ora9i DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/ora9i01.dbf' SIZE 100M; create user jeaf identified by jeaf default tablespace ora9i TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp; create table tt( a number, b varchar2(20), c blob ); insert into tt(a,b) values(2,'Jeaf Sun'); select a,b from tt; rop procedure sys.subptxt2 * ERROR at line 1: ORA-04043: object SUBPTXT2 does not exist Procedure created. drop procedure sys.subptxt * ERROR at line 1: ORA-04043: object SUBPTXT does not exist RA-04043: object AQ$_JMS_HEADER does not exist drop type aq$_jms_userproparray * ERROR at line 1: ORA-04043: object AQ$_JMS_USERPROPARRAY does not exist drop type aq$_jms_userproperty * ERROR at line 1: ORA-04043: object AQ$_JMS_USERPROPERTY does not exist Synonym created. Grant succeeded. Package body created. Package created. Synonym created. Grant succeeded. rant succeeded. DROP SYNONYM def$_tran * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01434: private synonym to be dropped does not exist DROP SYNONYM def$_call * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01434: private synonym to be dropped does not exist DROP SYNONYM def$_defaultdest * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01434: private synonym to be dropped does not exist View created. grant select on ku$_nt_parent_view to select_catalog_role * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-04031: unable to allocate 2196 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","OBJAUTH$SYS","KGLS heap","KGLS MEM BLOCK") grant select on ku$_fhtable_view to public * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 2 ORA-04031: unable to allocate 620 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","select ts#,file#,block#,nvl(...","Typecheck heap","qknAllocate : qkn") ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01653: unable to extend table SYS.SOURCE$ by 512 in tablespace SYSTEM Errors for FUNCTION OLAP_TABLE: LINE/COL ERROR ---------------- 0/0 PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated 6/17 PLS-00201: identifier 'OLAPIMPL_T' must be declared Synonym created. Grant succeeded. CREATE TYPE system.repcat$_object_null_vector AS OBJECT * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01655: unable to extend cluster SYS.C_OBJ# by 512 in tablespace SYSTEM CREATE TABLESPACE users LOGGING DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/users01.dbf' SIZE 100M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL; CREATE TABLESPACE tools LOGGING DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/tools01.dbf' SIZE 100M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL; CREATE TABLESPACE ora9i DATAFILE '/export/oracle/oradata/ora9i/ora9i01.dbf' SIZE 500M; create user jeaf identified by jeaf default tablespace ora9i TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp; grant connect,resource to jeaf;