Re: Upgrade from 8.0.5 to 9iR2 on AIX 4.3.3

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:xvZma.15164$1s1.240138_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
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> "Rauf Sarwar" <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:92eeeff0.0304151044.3ab51a9d_at_posting.google.com...
> > "Roger Jackson" <rjackson1_at_hotkey.net.au> wrote in message
> news:<3e9befcc_1_at_news.iprimus.com.au>...
> > > Rauf,
> > >
> > > I would recommend that you goto the latest patchset for AIX 4.3.3
which
> is
> > > Oracle 9.2.0.3.0 rather than 9.2.0.1.0 and secondly make sure the
latest
> O/S
> > > patches are applied to your server or else you will have problems
> installing
> > > Oracle 9.2.
> > >
> > > By the way you need to be on Oracle 8.0.6 to do a direct upgrade to
9.2.
>
> PMFJI: that's not quite true. Upgrades from 7.3.4 are supported, too.
>
> The doco. for 9i Release 1 erroneously stated that 7 had to migrate to 8
> before it could go to 9.
>
> Regards
> HJR
PS, but in the context of the original question, you are quite right: 8.0.5 has to be patched first to 8.0.6 before the move to 9. My mistake for reading your words literally, and not being careful enough about seeing what you were replying to. Apologies.

Regards
HJR Received on Tue Apr 15 2003 - 15:11:14 CDT