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.
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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?
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