Re: multiple oracle homes - different physical drives

In article <8tcsul$chq$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   jane_ballard_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is it possible to install multiple oracle homes - one for the
> existing oracle 8.0.5 on Drive E and an oracle 8.1.6 on Drive F.
>
> The reason behind this thought is that I do not have a standby
> machine to image, the network guys tells me that it is only possible
 to
> backup the data and not the os.
>
> Oracle tells me that if I want to use the same oracle home, I
> need to kill off the old oracle 8.0.5 with a sledge hammer.. eg. go
> into windows registry and remove a lot of things... and I know from
> experience that it is not always a clean remove... then what happens
 is
> that we would have to re-image the entire machine. That's where the
> problems lies... I do not have that capability to reimage.
>
> One school of thought is to load oracle 8.1.6 on a different
> physical drive on the same machine.
>
> any thoughts or is this a crazy idea? I'm open to options.
 No
> I can't borrow, beg or still another machine.. I tried that... no
> budget.. So any thoughts?
>
> Jane
>
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Should be no problem.
I don't agree however with Oracle: as all sw prior to 8i had version specific filenames and Oracle 8i doesn't (anymore) all filenames are different. Also, they always stated as long as their was the two first digits of the version number are different you *can* install it in the same Oracle_home. Just to be sure: use that F-drive.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

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