oracle on linux

[Scott Lanning]

Hi, I'm trying to install Oracle8i (8.1.6) on Red Hat 7.3.
(It came on a CD with a book, "Oracle8i for Linux Starter Kit".)
After setting up groups, user oracle, environment variables,
everything in the book, I try to run the so-called "Universal"
installer (grumble), and it hangs:

[oracle at localhost oracle]$ cd /mnt/cdrom/
[oracle at localhost cdrom]$ ./runInstaller
[oracle at localhost cdrom]$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait...

At this point, I wait like 10 minutes and nothing happens,
but apparently the jre started:

Output of top:
  3:10pm  up  1:26,  3 users,  load average: 0.99, 0.71, 0.33
58 processes: 54 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 13.8% user, 86.1% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   376524K av,  261752K used,  114772K free,       0K shrd,   21384K buff
Swap:  779112K av,       0K used,  779112K free                  174052K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 3727 oracle    25   0  3012 2176   860 R    98.0  0.5   5:16 jre
 3412 root      15   0  137M 9028  2924 R     0.7  2.3   0:03 X
 3850 root      15   0  1032 1032   836 R     0.7  0.2   0:00 top
 3436 oracle    15   0  3444 3444  2072 S     0.3  0.9   0:00 sawfish
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(I run sawfish. Do you think that is the problem?? Hmm, does sawfish
support "Motif 1.2"?)
My glibc version is 2.2, and Oracle requires linking with 2.1.3,
but I downloaded a patch (stub 2.1.3 bindings), and it says to
just install as normal but don't add a database during the install
and then apply the patch.

Any suggestions?