<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hi, I'm having a tough time installing Oracle 8i Ent Ed on Redhat Linux 7.3. At first it was giving me this error and nothing else : "Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait..." Now, after I read many How-tos and did export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 its starts the installer, which runs for some time but always just vanishes after selecting Typical Installation, processing gows upto 84% and then just....vanished. What m I missing? I've installed the following: compat-glibc compat-egcs compat-libtdc++ compat-libs from CD 2 of linux 7.3 (6.2 compatibility) as some How-tos suggested. also installed jdk 1.1.8 from www.blackdown.org now what do i do? please help me as soon as possible. Thanks in advance...</DIV></BODY></HTML>