Oracle 8.1.7 installation on linux

From: APaone <a.paone_at_libero.it>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:23:18 GMT
Message-ID: <WjW_8.15879$s74.437681@twister1.libero.it>

I'm trying to install Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.1.7 on Linux (RedHat 7.3, kernel 2.4.18).
I downloaded the file from Oracle site and untarred it in a local directory from which .
I followed all the instructions in the Installation Guide, but when I try to start installation I received the following message:

 Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait...
SIGSEGV received at bfffdc74 in
/usr/tempo/Disk1/stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava.so. Processing terminated
Mon Jul 22 18:01:28 2002

jre full version "JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-20000713 (JIT enabled: jitc)" Operating Environment

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Host            : localhost.localdomain.(none)
OS Level        : 2.4.18-3.#1 Thu Apr 18 07:31:07 EDT 2002
glibc Version   : 2.2.5
No. of Procs    : 1
Memory Info:
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  262336512 215592960 46743552        0  9576448 94564352
Swap: 534601728        0 534601728
MemTotal:       256188 kB
MemFree:         45648 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:          9352 kB
Cached:          92348 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         155752 kB
Inact_dirty:      2416 kB
Inact_clean:     28224 kB
Inact_target:    37276 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       256188 kB
LowFree:         45648 kB
SwapTotal:      522072 kB
SwapFree:       522072 kB

Committed_AS: 377944 kB

User Limits (in bytes except for NOFILE and NPROC) -

        RLIMIT_FSIZE    : infinity
        RLIMIT_DATA     : infinity
        RLIMIT_STACK    : 2093056
        RLIMIT_CORE     : 0
        RLIMIT_NOFILE   : 1024
        RLIMIT_NPROC    : 2047

Can anyone help me to understand what is the problem? Received on Mon Jul 22 2002 - 11:23:18 CDT