Not strictly programming, but someone out there may have an idea of how to deal with the java issues (or have worked around them already): Using the 9.2.0.4 (May-2004) installer: $ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2004-06-10_09-31-39PM/jre/bin/java. Please wait... Error occurred during initialization of VM Unable to load native library: /tmp/OraInstall2004-06-10_09-31-39PM/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. I can get the install to fail due to lack of libraries if I hack the initialization files to use a recent copy of java downloaded from sun: [Oracle] DISTRIBUTION=TRUE SOURCE=../../stage/products.jar LICENSE_LOCATION= JRE_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.3.1.0.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/jre/linux OUI_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.oui/2.2.0.18.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=" -mx48m" DEFAULT_HOME_LOCATION= DEFAULT_HOME_NAME=OUIHome NO_BROWSE=/net NLS_ENABLED=TRUE BOOTSTRAP=TRUE OUI_VERSION=2.2.0.18.0 Changing the file to ignore their install gives me: JRE_LOCATION=/opt/java/j2re1.4.2_04 gives me: $ ./runInstaller Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2004-06-10_09-34-52PM/jre/bin/java. Please wait... Error occurred during initialization of VM java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object Question: - Has anyone successfully installed O9i on 9.1 yet? - If so, any particular workarounds you needed? thanks -- Steven Lembark 117 E. 55th Cognia NY, NY 10022 212 331 7844