When I go to run the installer from the disk, it says "Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2008-05-07/jre/bin/java. Please wait..."

And then it sits there and doesn't do anything. I've left it for at least ten minutes in the past just to be sure and nothing happens.

I'm at a total loss, I've tried everything I can think of and now I don't know what to do.

I'm trying to install it on a virtual machine running openSUSE 10.3. These are the steps I have taken:

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I've installed these packages: gcc gcc-c++ glibc libaio libaio-devel make openmotif openmotif-libs libstdc++ libstdc++-devel

I've created a symbolic link by typing the command ln –s /opt/gcc33/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc in the terminal.

I've downloaded and installed orarun. I used --nodeps and --force when I installed it because it said it conflicted with the file /bin/sh or something like that.

I typed /usr/bin/passwd oracle in the terminal to change the password. I typed /usr/sbin/rcoracle start.

I've checked if the kernel parameters are okay and made sure they were at least as large as the numbers below:
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmmax = 536870912
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmni = 4096
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000

I went to YaST > User Management and made sure the login shell for the oracle user is set to /bin/bash.

I copied all the disk images to the local virtual machine.

I set the DISPLAY -- as administrator I typed xhost + in the terminal. As the oracle user I typed export DISPLAY=:0.

I changed directories to get to the disk and typed ./runInstaller.

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Any ideas at all would help, please!!