Oracle 8i Personal Edition for windows 98

I have received the personal edition from
Oracle.
I did the installation which completed without errors.
Then, I went to start up the database. The
database started, but would not mount.
The error that I got was...
Ora-00202: controlfile:
'c:\oracle\ORADATA\orcl\control01.ctl'
ora-27041: unable to open file
osd-04002: unable to open file
o/s-error:(OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
ora-205 signaled during: Alter database mount exclusive...
archiving is disabled.
What I discovered was that the control file
it was looking for control01.ctl
was not on the cd.
Any idea how to get rid of this problem??
If I need this control file, what is it for
and where would I get it??
Thanks for your help...
Merv Engel

Hi,
I figured it out.
For some reason, when I installed the "typical" install, it failed.
But, when I did the Database install only,
which installed the database properly, then
did the "typical" install which installed the
additional stuff (sqlplus, etc.), it worked.
Thanks for your help, though.
Please see my other problem regarding using
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