This is probably not what you are looking for, but it is a series of excellent tutorials about getting started with Oracle. http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle9i/htdocs/9iobe/OBE9i-Public/ Badrish Agarwal wrote: >Hi, >I'm trying to install 9i on win 2000 / p4 machine. >Database creation after the installation is failing. >Any pointers. > >Thanx >Badrish > > -- Chris Johnston www.fuzzylizard.com chris at fuzzylizard.com