creating new db using old control files, datafiles

[gtcol]

Hi PAVB
I understand what you're saying. But Oracle won't let me connect even as sysdba, in the first place. I tried relink all; attached is its output. (I had to break them down to 2, as they exceeded 100K size limit.) And after relinking, 'env | grep ORA' gives me correct paths. But still I am getting following error.

[oracle@oradb1 ~]$ sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Feb 13 14:50:15 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.

SQL> conn sys as sysdba
Enter password:
ERROR:
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

SQL>

Thanks
gtcol