Database Configuration utility - huray? :-/

Question

Hello (again, sigh),
I am installing PeopleSoft FCM 9.1 and yes, having no experience with installing PeopleSoft I decided to use the Database Configuration utility, using the article provided by Nicolas Gasparotto as a guide:
http://gasparotto.blogspot.com/2009/12/db-wizard-850-for-oracle-on-linux.html
along with the Oracle Documentation. In the guide above, I should be up to step 9.
this is the log I get after failing to create the database :
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Aug 2 15:39:29 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> spool createdb.log
SQL>
SQL> startup nomount pfile=$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initFC91DB.ora
ORA-48108: invalid value given for the diagnostic_dest init.ora parameter
ORA-48140: the specified ADR Base directory does not exist [/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/<ORACLE_BASE>]
ORA-48187: specified directory does not exist
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 1
SQL>
SQL> create database   FC91DB
  2        maxdatafiles  1021
  3        maxinstances  1
  4        maxlogfiles   8
  5        maxlogmembers 4
  6        CHARACTER SET UTF8
  7        NATIONAL CHARACTER SET UTF8
  8  DATAFILE '/oradata/FC91DB/system01.dbf' SIZE 2000M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 10240K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
  9  EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL
10  SYSAUX DATAFILE '/oradata/FC91DB/sysaux01.dbf' SIZE 120M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT     10240K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
11  DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP TEMPFILE '/oradata/FC91DB/temp01.dbf' SIZE 20M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT     640K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
12  UNDO TABLESPACE "PSUNDOTS" DATAFILE '/oradata/FC91DB/psundots01.dbf' SIZE 300M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT  5120K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
13  LOGFILE GROUP 1 ('/oradata/FC91DB/redo01.log') SIZE 100M,
14            GROUP 2 ('/oradata/FC91DB/redo02.log') SIZE 100M,
15            GROUP 3 ('/oradata/FC91DB/redo03.log') SIZE 100M;
create database   FC91DB
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
Process ID: 0
Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0
SQL> spool off
SQL> exit
DisconnectedOk so Oracle is not available, but:
[oracle@vm-psfin91-db InstData]$ sqlplus SYS/system@SEED as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Aug 2 15:46:49 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL>SEED is just a small database I created earlier to test connectivity between my servers - just a little crutch for me to at least see some progress. But it shows that Oralce is available doesn't it?
What can I check/recheck?
Seems like I'm starting to be a regular here at the forums bragging for help :D
Thanks coping with me,
Honza.

Answer 1

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Are you going to use DBWizard ? Something is wrong then, your db name is in upper case which is not supported by the Wizard (point 8.2 of my article you linked).
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Nicolas, your article mentions that the name is supposed to be in upper case, which mine is. And it seems like you also used an upper case name in the end: O2H91WZD. So now I'm a bit confused as to what is actually supported. I believe it's supposed to be upper case, there was no error message about the uppercase name.
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Did you set the env. variables ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE properly ? Which user are you connected with ? Did you updated the tnsnames.ora ?
Could you also post the content of the file $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initFC91DB.ora ?
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ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE are correct, that I'm sure of. And, if they weren't I wouldn't be able to connect to my test SEED database. As far as ORACLE_SID goes, I did change it accordingly depending on wether I was connecting to FC91DB and SEED.
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PS : what is SEED when you create database FC91DB ? What ORACLE_SID value did you set up front ?
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SEED is just a test database I created in the very beginning when setting up my Application and Database server environment - just to test connectivity on both sides. It has no use other then that. When I created FC91DB I simply added an entry in my tnsnames.ora and created a init.ora file, then set ORACLE_SID accoringly.
I can post back my tnsnames and init files once I get back to the server, thank you for input so far.