Personal 8i - DB Config. Assistant Hangs-HELP

Question

HI,
I downloaded the personal oracle 8i and I installed it on my computer. I did a clean installation to avoid any problems. The installation was successful. At the end three assistant tools start automatically. Two of them were successful. The Database Configuration assistant failed. I tried
to start it manually through the menu a few times. It always failed in the same way. It starts, installs 1%, displays a DOS window c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND and then it hangs. I have to shut down the computer to recover from this state. It creates the directories for the database files, the itit.ora file,
registers the data base name, but it does not create any data base or control files. I tried to delete the name of the database name it registered, but it hangs again with the same conditions. I think it fails
when it tries to execute the installation commands shown in the log bellow:
If you know any way to resolve this problem, I will appreciate it a lot. My
computer has 128 MB of RAM and 15 GB free space. It should not be a resource
problem. Can it have to do anything with any DOS environment parameters I do
not know?
Attached for your in formation is the last part of the installation log at
c:\program files\oracle\inventory\logs\installactions.log:
Thanks
LOG:
Starting to execute optional autolaunch configuration tools
Launched configuration tool Net8 Configuration Assistant
Command which is being spawned is C:\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin/jrew.exe -Duser.dir=c:\Oracle\Ora81\network\jlib
-classpath ";C:\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\rt.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\ewt-3_3_6.jar;c:\Orac
le\Ora81\network\jlib\NetCA.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\network\jlib\netcam.jar;c:\O
racle\Ora81\network\jlib\opsclust.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\netcfg.jar;c:\Ora
cle\Ora81\jlib\help-3_1_8.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\ice-4_06_6.jar;c:\Oracle\
Ora81\jlib\share-1_0_8.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\swingall-1_1_1.jar;C:\Progra
m Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\i18n.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\network\tools"
oracle.net.ca.NetCA /orahnam OraHome81 /instype typical /inscomp
client,net8,javavm,server /insprtcl nmp,tcp /cfg local /authadp NO_VALUE
/nodeinfo NO_VALUE /responseFile NO_VALUE
Configuration tool Net8 Configuration Assistant succeeded
Result code for launching of configuration tool is 0
Launched configuration tool Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
Command which is being spawned is C:\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin/jrew.exe -Duser.dir=c:\Oracle\Ora81\assistants\d
bca\jlib -classpath ";C:\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\rt.jar;C:\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\i18n.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\ewt-3_3_6.jar;c:\Or
acle\Ora81\jlib\share-1_0_8.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\swingall-1_1_1.jar;c:\O
racle\Ora81\assistants\dbca\jlib\dbassist.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\assistants\jli
b\jnls.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\assistants\jlib\acc.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\help
-3_1_8.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\ice-4_06_6.jar;c:\Oracle\Ora81\jlib\netcfg.j
ar;" DBCreateWizard -progress_only -responseFile NO_VALUE -createtype
seed -numusers NO_VALUE -apptype NO_VALUE -options NO_VALUE -seedloc
C:\poracle\starterdb -sid orcl -orabase c:\Oracle -gdbName orcl
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Answer 1

well, i guess i answered my own question. re-sized the oracle partition to 1.5GB and all installed correctly. must be some HUGE temp files created. It damn well better after 3 install/abort/removes! Oracle should document install space reqs much better (if you;re listening, Lar).
I never did have any of the java problems reported by other users. go figure.