solaris doesnt have oradim, therefore no need to translate if you want the database to autostart on machine start then you need to link a startup script you write into the rc.X directories. Many examples on the web of how to do that On 04/04/06, Roger Xu <roger_xu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi List, > > How do I translate the following into Solaris? Thanks a lot. > > oradim -new -sid upslt -startmode m -pfile > c:\upslt\server\database\init\initupslt.ora > > oradim -edit -sid upslt -startmode a >