From: "atl.mediaone" <rmycroft@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: Installing Oracle 8i on Redhat - problem with jre
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Well, got past that by cd'ing into install/linux and running runInst.sh -
not the method shown in the manual, but hey it works.

Rich

atl.mediaone wrote in message
<0_246.66949$sr6.11509966@typhoon.southeast.rr.com>...
>I'm trying to install Oracle on Redhat and I've got the jre 1.1.6 v5
>installed and it works.  Then next step is to setup a link to the jre so
 I'm
>doing the following:
>
>ln -s /usr/local/jre116_v5 /usr/local/jre
>
>which as near as I can tell is what's needed to get things ready to go on
>the java end.  I can type /usr/local/jre/bin/jre and get the usual default
>help listing from the jre, so that seems to be correct.  But every time I
>try to run runInstaller from the cdrom I get a message of
>
>Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please
>wait...
>Error in CreateOUIProcess() : -1
>:Bad address
>
>Anyone got an answer to this?  It's got to be something very simple that
 I'm
>missing.
>
>Rich Mycroft
>rmycroft@mediaone.net
>
>
>