Upgrade to 11g on Windows Server 2008

Hi
I'm planning an upgrade of a 9.2.0.8 32-bit database to 11g 64-bit. The database is around 250GB in size, and is hosted on a Windows 2003 server. The plan is to host the upgraded database on a new Windows 2008 64-bit server. I have a maximum two-hour outage window
My initial thoughts for the upgrade procedure were as follows:
1) Install 9i 32-bit and 11g 64-bit on the new 2008 server
2) A day or two before the upgrade, clone the 9i database to the new 2008 server and open the database in recovery mode
3) Rollforward the clone database by applying archive logs from the source until the start of the outage window
4) Shutdown the old database, copy the last logs to the new server, apply them to the clone database, and run the upgrade procedure.
Then I realised that 9.2.0.8 won't install on Windows Server 2008 as it's not certified.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding the best way I could do this?

250GB is not all current data and hopefully is partitioned. Approach this from the standpoint of moving 90+% before the outage. Tell us more about the organization and tablespaces.
Amazon.com has got the upgrade in place optimized to only to 16 minutes per database. I can't tell you the details but I can tell you that much of what Oracle does in its upgrade scripts can be done prior to the outage. And some of it after the database is opened again. See if you can slice and dice the upgrade script to minimize downtime too.

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