Oracle 8.i personal edition start-up problem

Question

Hi, I just download oracle8i personal edition from this site and install on my pc(window98). However when I tried to SQL*plus, it prompted my for username, password and host string. I used username/password for this site, but what should I put for host string? I am using ehternet from school, so my pc has no IP address. Another thing maybe worth to mention, during my install the program , it failed to install ORACLE CONFIGRATION ASSISTANT TOOL, it seems try to initialize a db from CD which I don't have.if anybody has gone thru this personal editon installment process, please share your experience. thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks for your answer
The OS user I'm log is ORACLE that own the filesystem, Before you ask ORACLE is part of OINSTALL and DBA group
Any other suggestion
[oracle@sil-rac1 ~]$ id
uid=1100(oracle) gid=1200(dba) groups=4(adm),100(users),1000(oinstall),1200(dba)
[oracle@sil-rac1 ~]$ env | sort
BASE_PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/oracle/bin
_=/bin/env
CLASSPATH=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/JRE:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/jlib:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/rdbms/jlib
DB_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
GRID_HOME=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid
HISTSIZE=1000
HOME=/home/oracle
HOSTNAME=sil-rac1
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
LOGNAME=oracle
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/oracle
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid
ORACLE_HOSTNAME=sil-rac1.silanis.com
ORACLE_SID=+ASM1
ORACLE_TERM=xterm
ORACLE_UNQNAME=RAC
PATH=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/oracle/bin
PWD=/home/oracle
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
TERM=xterm
TMPDIR=/tmp
TMP=/tmp
USER=oracle
[oracle@sil-rac1 ~]$