Reliable Penguin

I was getting weird jvm errors while running the installer. Fix is documented here:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg06994.html

At

 ftp://people.redhat.com/drepper/libcwait.c

you find a file which you can compile with

  gcc -shared -o libcwait.so -fpic -O2 libcwait.c

to get a DSO which you then can preload with

  LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libcwait.so java ARGS...

Another problem involved the installer hanging at "Link pending ...". This was fixed with:

  export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

Here a link to a discussion of this issue:

http://dbforums.com/t759429.html

And here's a link to many more fixes:

http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml

And another good link:

http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/9i/Oracle9iInstallationOnRedHatAS3.php