Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 8i and 9i on same box Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:51:49 -0700 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1065801120.673351@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1065781597.80573.0@demeter.uk.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <1065781597.80573.0@demeter.uk.clara.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@pond178.drizzle.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:245040 Tom wrote: >Hi, > >During my upgrade plan from 8i to 9i i will have to run both versions on the same box for a while. > >Apart from making sure they install into different ORACLE_HOME's is there anything else for me to watch out for? > >I assume i'll just use the 9i listener. > >This is on Linux 7.3 > >thanks > > > Just keep in mind the environment variables set in the various .profiles can only point to a single location. Take care to keep them straight. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)