RE: 10.2 locations for Admin and Oradata directoriesGood point. It's clear that Mr. Millsap was misguided when he wrote those OFA papers. I'll bet that Oracle 11x will trumpet the superiority of Method C over Method R. --Terry Sarah, it isn't just under Winduhs, the $ORACLE_BASE/admin was moved under $ORACLE_HOME. If you come to think of that, it makes sense. Database is always managed by certain version of software and you can have several versions under the very same $ORACLE_BASE. Databases that are 10.2 will be under 10.2 software tree, those managed by 9.2 will be under 9.2 software tree, databases running 5.1.22 and 6.0.36 will be under $ORACLE_BASE/Smithsonian software tree. -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121