Re: Saving down time on Install

I've done this on Solaris without any problems, including creating a new 8.1.7 database instance with an 8.0.6 instance running. The key is separate ORACLE_HOME's and being certain you're environment is set for the correct version.

Jack van Zanen wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Before we go through the tests I thought I might save myself some time:
>
> We are about to install Oracle 8.1.7 into a seperate Oracle Home on a
> machine already running 8.0.5
> We will not be upgrading our databases yet, just creating new ones from
> scratch.
>
> Our thinking is that apart from rootpre.sh (loading new kernel extension)
> nothing interferes with the 8.0.5 database/install. So we feel that we
> should be able to install the new version while other databases are up and
> running (restarted after rootpre.sh is run).
>
> We are on AIX 4.3.3
>
> Anybody done this/info???
>
> TIA
>
> Jack
>
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