I think the following may be helpful.

As has been said, without RAC there is one database per instance. After
installing the Oracle software, you create instances, databases etc
separately. The real point I would like to make is that it's important to
structure and name your directories properly, and the following document
should be useful:

http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/ofa.html

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