setting display for oracle installation

Hellow friends,

I am trying to install the oracle8i on a sun server (i.e., on sun solaris 8) but whenever i am running the runInstaller it is saying to set the display.
I tried to give the follwing commands.

#DISPLAY=:0.0; export $DISPLAY
it din't work
so I tried to give as follows
#DISPLAY=hastname:0.0
#export $DISPLAY
hostname:0.0 is not a valid identifier ( the error)

Can any one help me to set this parameter?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Naren

Would it be safe to assume you are not typing "hostname" as the name of your machine?

If you hostname/node name is malladi, you would enter
setenv DISPLAY malladi:0.0 (for C-shell)

If the display is properly set, you should be able to run xclock or any other CDE GUI tool. If you can't run xclock, you won't be able to run OUI.

Thanks stecal,

I have got the OUI. Actually I was doing the mistake in settting the DISPLAY ie., while exporting I am adding "$" before DISPLAY.

#DISPLAY=:0.0
#export DISPLAY

thanks a lot,

Regards,

naren