I'm not sure, because I stopped relying on the installer to do any = configurations for me after I realized that it either bombed trying to = do it or I needed to modify rhe config afterwards anyway. Click "Skip" (or is it "Cancel"?) on the net config portion and fire it = up manually. GL! Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:42 PM Subject: Manual steps in RAC setup ... is it just me? Hi all, I'm building some RAC "twins" for development and testing, and have =3D noticed that if I don't manually build tnsnames.ora and listener.ora, = =3D the installer fails to create them when creating a clustered instance, = =3D and everything ends up in a mess. Is this normal, or am I suffering the = =3D slings and arrows of outrageous installers? Details generic Intel x86 boxes, shared firewire storage, separate NICs for =3D public and private. linux 2.4, modified fedora kernel (from OTN) oracle 9.2.0.4 32-bit (latest OTN copy) (The only up-side to this is that I have now built eight clusters in two = =3D weeks ... I'm feeling less ignorant about the process) Comments? Ciao Fuzzy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l