Thanks for your reply, However duplicating the DB using a cold back up
- and starting up the server using NFS worked fine.
Any reasons there should be a differance?
Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message news:<jnnsqvgo062g867qa2vbeg29uvbkfg31t2_at_4ax.com>...
> On 9 Nov 2003 05:30:12 -0800, geminiraz_at_yahoo.com (Nadav) wrote:
>
> >However trying to duplicate the database does not succeed.
> >What I'm trying to do is create the new Instance where the Instace
> >will run on the test-SunOS 5.8 machine - while the datafiles will
> >reside on the linux via NFS.
>
>
> Generally speaking Unix file systems are NOT cross platform
> compatible, and Oracle definitely doesn't support this situation.
> Also using NFS for your datafiles provides a BIG NO NO and isn't
> supported. You are doomed to fail.
Received on Mon Nov 10 2003 - 02:13:14 CST
