I used to do this all the time...and it took some thinking to remember
this one.
You have to use the command oradim. I don't recall all the options, but
there is a decent coverage of this topic at
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/admin/creatingdbmanually.html. It talks about
10g, but most of the concepts will be the same.
i'm a unix guy not a windows guy. at the new job we use windows and
8.1.7. could someone point me at the FM that shows me how to create a
service so i can get a database with files already in place to
start/stop with svrmgrl please?