RE: Oracle issues after HDD swap into new PC?
From: Rich Jesse <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:47:23 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <ee3076cd5947e73628103c770fcfb4cc.squirrel_at_society.servebeer.com>
Thanks guys for the feedback. I'm not as worried about the Windows drivers and such -- they're a pain, but a known problem. A consultant of ours was wondering if the Oracle stack might need to be reinstalled. I couldn't see why, but I think I'm going to find out!
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:47:23 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <ee3076cd5947e73628103c770fcfb4cc.squirrel_at_society.servebeer.com>
Thanks guys for the feedback. I'm not as worried about the Windows drivers and such -- they're a pain, but a known problem. A consultant of ours was wondering if the Oracle stack might need to be reinstalled. I couldn't see why, but I think I'm going to find out!
Thanks again!
Rich
> Can you set up the new server with its own internal drive to support the OS
> then plug in the HDD from the source machine as a slave? Should be able to
> mount the database that way...might have to recreate the control file to
> make sure the files names are all correct. The OS on the slave would be
> just ignored.
>
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>
> I haven't done this since XP, but I do recall something about having to
> create hardware profiles so that the OS instance could boot with correct
> drivers. There's (probably) more changing than the processor - chipsets,
> drives, etc). I don't know if such a thing is possible or necessary in
> Windows 7, but it'd be where I would want to investigate.
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