Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsifeed01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspost00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: "Niall Litchfield" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: Subject: Re: Upgrading My OS from NT 4 to Win2000 with Oracle 8i Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:40:34 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3da5f3d5$0$1294$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: useray96.uk.uudial.com X-Trace: 1034286038 news.dial.pipex.com 1294 62.188.139.186 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:163788 X-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:40:36 MST (news.easynews.com) "Henry Jackson" wrote in message news:Fnlp9.42796$0o4.11381@sccrnsc03... > I am trying to find out if there is going to be some odd problems when I > updgrade my OS to Win2000 from NT 4 sp 6. The database is 8i 8.1.6. I am > really needing to upgrade within the next week. My approach would be to take an export (and test it). Then blow away the os and install win2k from scratch. Install 8.1.7. Patch to 8.1.7.4. then import from your export. win2k is nice stable, reliable and supported as is 8.1.7. Have fun. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK ***************************************** Please include version and platform and SQL where applicable It makes life easier and increases the likelihood of a good answer ******************************************