Problem on installing oracle 9i on red hat linux

Question

anybody having experience on installing oracle on redhat?
I've tried to install oracle 9i on redhat 8.0. but when I run the
install command "./runInstaller" under Disk1,
I got a error msg: "line 58: ./runInstaller: cannot execute binary
file". (my x windows system works normally.)
the runInstaller in the error msg is that one under
/Disk1/install/linux. so what can I do to solve this problem?
Regards,
Yabing

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In my case, it was because of downloading an version of the software. You can check this by running the command:
readelf -h /cdrom/Disk1/install/linux/runinstaller
you should see something like
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Intel 80386
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x8048dd0
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          34164 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x0
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         6
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         30
  Section header string table index: 27If the Machine entry does not match your server, then download the correct version and try again.
You may also want to check out www.puschitz.com which has some good articles on installing Oracle on Linux. You can also check out the Linux forum here under Tecnologies.
HTH
John