Re: Migrate from solaris 2.8 to solaris 2.9

you have to rebuild the oracle kernal after you upgrade the OS.

Good Luck.

"Sean Chang" <sean_at_cnfei.com> wrote in message news:<40477a34$1_3_at_corp.newsgroups.com>...
> > I plan to upgrade my os from solaris 2.8 to 2.9.
> > I will reinstall Oracle binaries but does I need to migrate the
> > databases ?
>
> No need re-install oracle, if it's in a seperate partition than root,
> nothing needs to be done, just install Solaris 9 and reboot the machine.
>
> No need migrate Oracle datafiles.
>
> > Could I only cold backup the database and restore it after the os and
> > Oracle binaries migration ?
> Yes
>
> > Does the datafile generated on solaris 2.8 coud work without any
> > modification on solaris 2.9 ?
>
> Yes. I have a database now can run under Solars 8 and 9, nothing
> needs to done, just change the boot disk and reboot will take care of it.
>
> If you datafiles ( or any oracle files ) are in root partition and the root
> partition
> needs format or resizing, just do a cold back the data files on some other
> disks,
> after install, you can copy it back to the original partition or Alter
> Database
> rename datafiles......
>
>
> > FYIA
> > rjp
>
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 18:57:19 CST