Hi,
I was able to restore the database on a different node using cold backup. Thanks a lot everybody.

The problem was that the services were not getting created using the oradim80 command.

I have 2 oracle homes installed on my machines. One for Oracle 8.1.7 and one for Oracle 8.0.5. i tried creating the services using the oradim command (8.1.7) and it created them and it worked.

BUT WHY DID IT NOT CREATE THE SERVICES USING THE ORADIM80 COMMAND.

ANY IDEAS.....

Thanks
Anurag