V6 to V7 migration question

Hello all !

I am trying to migrate a version 6 database to version 7, and decided to use the import/export utility. I logged into the V6 database as owner of the database and exported the entire database into a file using:

exp system/<password> file=expdat.dmp full=y

This created a dump file.

My next step was to log into UNIX as owner of the installation ( Oracle7 ) in order to create a new database and the tablespace shells into which the Oracle-binary data in the expdat.dmp file can be imported.

I copied the parameter files to new filenames ( initAUTO.ora and configAUTO.ora ),
and I modified all the parameters in these files. Then did a startup nomount with these parameter files:

SQLDBA> startup nomount pfile=/disk4/oracle/7.1.4/dbs/AUTO/initAUTO.ora ORACLE instance started.
SQLDBA> exit
SQL*DBA complete.
$ sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 3.1.3.5.1 - Production on Mon Sep 25 15:48:40 1995

Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1994. All rights reserved.

Enter user-name: system
Enter password:
ERROR: ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Enter user-name:

What is happening here ? Before this attempt, when I tried to connect internal, the message was that the ARCH process terminated with error. I did an ipcs -b, and removed the ARCH process from the shared memory. Then the instance started. But now I am having this problem...All I want to do is to create
the database and some tablespaces in this database.

Any opinions as to what I am doing wrong ? Thank you very much...

Nalini Vallampati
AT&T Capital GIS
Miamisburg, OH 45342

Nalini Vallampati
UNIX Admin/Oracle DBA
AT&T Capital - Global Information Solutions Miamisburg, OH 45342 Received on Mon Sep 25 1995 - 00:00:00 CET