Database recovery,password file missing

Hi
the operating system crashed .therefore i again installed oracle .
i had cold backup of my database.but the but the pwd file was missing.please note that database was not in archived mode.and the dumps were too old.
i tried to restored my database but because of missing password file ,i didn't
succeed .i created another password in svrmgr but it didn't worked.
please help me to restore the database which is oracle 8i.
Thanx alot
Tauqeer You use the orapwd command to create the password file.
$ orapwd
Usage: orapwd file=<fname> password=<password> entries=<users>
where
file - name of password file (mand),
password - password for SYS and INTERNAL (mand),
entries - maximum number of distinct DBA and OPERs (opt),
There are no spaces around the equal-to (=) character.

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