Oracle-L: Re: Server upgrade NT4 -> W2K Oracle implications

From: Thomas Day <tday6_at_csc.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:03:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0045E6EA.20020510100328@fatcity.com>

Recreating the C: drive will definitely destroy your Oracle registry entries and your Oracle and listener services. Doing an in-place upgrade should not and will also give you a more stable server. Ghosting is much easier but it can produce an unstable machine that will intermittently suffer a GPF for no apparent reason. I can understand why a company bringing in 500 new machines will resort to ghosting but to do it for just a single machine ... I can't justify that in my own mind.

Have them do the NT to 2K upgrade rather than recreate the C: partition.

                                                                                           
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We have an 8.1.7 SE database on a server which is currently NT4 SP6. The System Admin group wish to upgrade the server to W2K and propose doing so by
recreating the C: partitition. Our Oracle software resides on E: (same physical disk) and database files on other disks/partitions. Are there any implications for the Oracle software and database for this upgrade. Are there any steps I need to take pre or post OS upgrade?. In particular I'm wondering about implications for the registry. Any advice/help would be appreciated.

Seán O' Neill
Organon (Ireland) Ltd.
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