After the upgrade from 816 to 817, there is also something like "Post Installation or After migration or upgrading" issues and specifically something about installing ODCI.jar and cartridgeservices.jar if you have the java option selected..
Can anyone become more specific about this???http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/a86632/migaftrm.htm#1247
I created the db manually to 8.1.6 and then upgraded to 817 by following the http link enclosed by Jeff and so on.. Everything went well. I ran the script u08010601.sql..
Thanks