I am new to Oracle and here is my question. I have been working with a
db with a certain SID. Now I need to mount another database
(preferably with the same SID). The new set of files is offline backup
pack and contains all the datafiles, control files and online redo
files except the Init.ora file. (I am not sure if the backup was made
after shutting down the db. )

I have tried with changing the path of the control files in the
Init.ora but could not succeed. (the db is not mounting, shows error :
"either in initialization mode or shutdown mode").

Thanks in advance for any help.

Pramod