Michael Cupp wrote:
> I know this is extremely remedial and trival for most of you - but I am a
> very new user, and need to know what I have to do to get my database instance
> created? Anyone that has a cheatsheet or something they can send me would
> also be greatly appreciated.
>
> I am a 10+ year veteran of Oracle 6.0 to 9i.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
You are probably looking for the initdb and createdb commands. See, for example
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May1998/article38.html
about half-way down the introducton section.