dbca logs

here you can find dbca logs $ORACLE_HOME/cfgtoollogs/dbca
thanks to OTN

Oracle dbca press finish nothing happens

If you press finish at the end of database creation of dbca and nothing happens, it is (in my case) an X problem. What I did was not to use the X server on windows instead I installed X11 on linux and used that one and it went smoothly.

check linux distribution

cat /etc/*-release

Linksys WAP54GS to act as router with dd-wrt

to make WAP54GS a router
1. Install dd-wrt
2. change the assignment of WAN port from vlan1 to vlan0
3. TADA!!!!!

/etc/sysconfig/desktop

/etc/sysconfig/desktop to choose the window manager permanently

vmware change MAC

in the virtual machine (config) vmx file:

# ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
# RANGE ALLOWED: 00:50:56:00:00:00-00:50:56:3F:FF:FF
ethernet0.addressType = "static"
# ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:94:43:71"
ethernet0.Address = "00:0c:29:94:43:70"