Oracle9i and Solaris 8 - help

I am having a problem with Solaris 8 and Oracle9i Enterprise on an Ultra Sparc 10(surely by now Oracle will have fixed this problem if it was reported with 8i?).
No matter if I change the path on the OUI, a mormal VM eject, a root shell eject, try a root shell umount of the cdrom or even a paper clip manual eject can I get the OUI to find disk2 or any other disk. It always reports device busy! If I stop the OUI, well of course it ejects (but also of course the install has stopped).
Any help would be great. Email me either here or at [email protected]
One day this will all look so simple :)
Regards
Jon http://www.solutionsfact.com
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(Oracle 9i database???? - I though that was still in beta????)
Anyway - most people start OUI from the binary on the CD and that locks the CD at the OS level. The simplest solution - copy the CD to a hard disk directory, start the OUI from that directory, then you have free and clear access to the CD for subsequent CDs.

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