[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by oradbadmin [/i]
[B]You cold take a cold full backup of your Oracle 7.3 DB and then porting it to Oracle 8.0.
Paying attention to configuration, it should work fine [/B][/QUOTE]

No, I don't think so. You can't change platforms using a cold backup.

Export/import is your only method.

1. Setup new database with correct datafile sizes, users, groups, etc.
2. export old database with full=y
3. ftp dmp file in binary mode to new box
4. import