Actually, I have done this several times and it works just fine. You can no longer install 8i at all on recent versions of Linux, at least as far as I can tell, but I have had to copy it from an older server to a newer one and it Just Works (tm). I haven't tried copying over the dbf files - I re-run the scripts to create the database and go from there.
Yes, I know it's unsupported, but sometimes you do what you gotta do in the short term.
janine
On Jun 28, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Jared Still wrote:
No, it can't.
That's why it is not so simple to do.
I suggest you google for help.
"oracle 8i linux installation" yielded some promising results.
Jared
On 6/28/05, Smith, Ron L. <rlsmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:I am just moving this install from one server to another server. I do not have a choice but to get it up and going on the new server.
Can the Oracle_home be copied from one server to another?
Thanks!
Ron
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Jared Still
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