You need to follow the steps at <BLOCKED::http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/win.102/b15688/create.htm#CHDGCBFJ> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/win.102/b15688/create.htm#CHDGCBFJ under the section entitled 'Migrating an Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) or Older Database' Donald Freeman Database Administrator II Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Information Technology 2150 Herr Street Harrisburg, PA 17103 <mailto:dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx> ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ashwin Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:30 PM To: Paul Drake Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: 9i 32-bit to 10g 64-bit upgrade on a seperate server The source 9i is on RHEL 4 (32-bit) and target 10g is on RHEL 5 (64-bit) Regards, Ashwin On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: please repost listing the operating system. Also, check the metalink doc on changing the database word size. you will need to run /rdbms/admin/utlirp.sql prior to upgrading the word size. hth. Pd On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ashwin <ashdbablog@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:ashdbablog@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi, I took a cold backup of 9i datafiles and copied them to the new 10g 64-bit server I installed the 10g 64-bit Oracle Home On the new 10g server, I recreated the controlfile to point to the new location of the datafiles and ran SQL> startup upgrade It failed saying that database should be open in resetlogs or no resetlogs mode I shutdown the db and did a startup mount and SQL>alter database open resetlogs; This time it failed saying that database should be opened in upgrade option. I am unable to proceed with the upgrade. Anyone ever faced this issue? Regards, Ashwin -- http://www.completestreets.org/faq.html http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/pamanual.pdf