[oracle@localhost Disk1]$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Aug 5 15:05:36 2015

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Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> select * from v$instance;
select  from v$instance
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available