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Various posters have posted what sounds like the exact same issue with Redhat 7x. I believe there is also a known workaround. Try a search on deja querying redhat and this news group.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK "News User" <newsuser_at_joarmc.yi.org> wrote in message news:slrn8v1los.mbp.newsuser_at_linux2.johnmckown.net...Received on Sat Oct 21 2000 - 06:44:17 CDT
> I have the same problem. Perhaps I just didn't wait long enough. I'm
running
> on a dual P-III 450 and it was still "locked up" with no apparent disk
> access (the light didn't come on) for over 8 hours. I gave up. I deleted
> all the Oracle stuff from my HD and simply decided that PostgreSQL had
> all the features that I needed. And it installed from the RPMs in about
> 10 minutes. I've had zero problems with it so far, but I'll admit that
> I'm not a heavy users. I wanted the Oracle just for learning purposes.
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:38:17 GMT, Leonard F Clark <lfc_at_zoom.co.uk> wrote:
> >I don't know Linux that well but I know something similar occurs on
> >other versions of Unix. If it is the same, it's all the (re-)linking
> >of the Java stuff. You just have to be veryyyyy patient. (We have
> >created a tarball out of the build do we only had to do it once!)
> >
> >Len
> >
> >>I have problems installing linux version of oracle8i. The universal
> >>installer works fine and installs most things. Then at the end of the
> >>installation (i suppose) when the universal installer wants to start
Net8
> >>configuration assistant and Oracle Database configuration assistant, it
> >>locks up. The Net8 part works perfectly fine, but during the Oracle
Database
> >>Configurattion Assistant phase, it locks up at 80% of progress bar. It's
> >>when initializing database.
> >>
> >>Why?
> >>
> >>
> >