Remove an Instance aka database

During my install of Oracle 10g on mac osx. I created a database via a script that I have found on the net or in one of the forums, (forget which one). Anyway I was wondering how I could remove the instance? I ran dbca but it doesn't pick it up, I guess since I didn't create it with dbca.
Anyone have any ideas?

That's relatively easy, just remove all the files and directories associated with the instance.
I don't know how you've set up your OFA, but the directories would be something like:
<mount point>/oradata/<sid>
$ORACLE_BASE/admin/<sid>
The files would be:
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/*<sid>*
Then edit /etc/oratab to remove the line containing the SID.
That should be it, I've only done this in 9i on AIX, so I'm not 100% sure this gets all the created files in 10g - perhaps the Administrators Reference would have more info.
HTH,
Steve

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