Migration from 8.1.7 to 9.2.0

I have a test database 8.1.7 on one server and I have 9.2.0 installed on another server. I want to copy the 8.1.7 database to the 9.2.0 server and try to migrate it to 9.2.0. The problem is that when I move it I have tio recreat the control files before I mount it to start the migration because the filesystem is layed out differently.

Can this be done? I copied all the files except control files to new server. Created an init.ora. Then I logged in as sysdba and ran my create control file script pointing everything to the new directories and I get the following error

ORA-04031: unable to allocate 11164520 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","sga heap(1,0)","FileOpenBlock")
CREATE CONTROLFILE SET DATABASE "DBTEST" RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available


ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

Did you STARTUP NOMOUNT before CREATE CONTROLFILE to get the instance started?

STARTUP NOMOUNT
CREATE CONTROLFILE SET DATABASE "DBTEST" RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG

'course you have otherwise it wouldn't be trying to allocate memory from your shared_pool... Have you tried increasing the size of your shared pool so that Oracle can find a sufficient chuck of memory to allocate to your request?

Have a look at this:

http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/...&p_id=146599.1