Re: Upgrading 8i to 10g drama

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<41abefd3$0$17541$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Pedro Hernandez wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I have not been able to find good docs on how to upgrade, so I'm merly
> > guessing my way through this. Someone who knows where the docs are?
>
> http://tahiti.oracle.com

I have been there, couldn't find much. Hmm, guess I have to look again. What seems strange to me is that when one run the "pre upgrade" script, the output mention an "Upgrade Documentation" and it refers to chapters, like if it is a book. But what I have found are pages in other books.

>
> > Do I _have_ to have 8i installed in order to upgrade a database to
> > 10g?
>
> Yup. Unless you choose to export data out from 8i and import into a
> virgin 10g database.
>
> > May Fedora Core 2 be the root of my troubles.
>
> No, in this case the root of your troubles is your willingness to
> "experiment"! (If I wrote up and said I'd pulled data files from a
> Windows box and copied them to a Unix box, I hope you'd see that I was
> going nowhere very fast. Your situation is analagous).

Well, not moving from windows to unix I accept. The paths for starters are not even close to compatible. Oracle says that one can't move between os:es, which -to me- leaves moving between versions of the same os open. The little documentation I have found doesn't anywhere state that the old Oracle install is involved in the upgrading process. That is at least true for the manual upgrade (what dbua are doing behind the gui is never mentioned). Well, I guess I drop it and do an import...

>
> > Would I be better of
> > with RH9 or Fedora Core 1? (I am about to order RH AS3, but would like
> > to get closer to production date first (money talks)).
>
> You are better off with a free version of RHAS3. It's called White Box
> Linux. You won't want the virtual bit, but this article may be of
> interest: http://www.dizwell.com/html/virtual_oracle__linux_.html

Thanks. Never heard about Whitebox before! Didn't read the article but downloaded and installed WB and Oracle. It was a lot less hassel than with Fedora :-)

  ph Received on Tue Nov 30 2004 - 20:36:45 CST