installation errors on Solaris 2.7

[rgaskell]

When installing Oracle 8.1.6 EEdition, get the following error
Solaris has all the patches.....any ideas??

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Installation of 8.1.6i gets to "Loading dialogs for Oracle intermedia
comms...", 49% of the way inwhen the whole thing grinds to a halt and the screen where runinstaller was activated returns...

java.io.IOException: bad path error
atjava.io.File.getCanonicalPath(Compiled Code)
atoracle.sysman.oii.oiix.OiixPathOps.getCanonicalPath(Compiled Code)
atoracle.sysman.oii.oiix.OiixJarClassLoader.<init>(Compiled Code)
atoracle.sysman.oii.oiix.OiixJarClassLoader.createLoader(Compiled
Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiis.OiisCompJarLoader.<init>(Compiled Code)
atoracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstallSession.getCompInstall(Compiled
Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstallSession.getCompInstall(Compiled
Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicCompsWizEngine.getCompContexts(Compiled
Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicCompsWizEngine.doOperation(Compiled Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifb.OiifbLinearIterator.iterate(Compiled
Code)
at
oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstallSession$OiicSelCompsInstall.doOperation(Compil
ed Code)
atoracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifb.OiifbCondIterator.iterate(Compiled
Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicPullSession.doOperation(Compiled Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicSessionWrapper.doOperation(


Compiled Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifb.OiifbLinearIterator.iterate(Compiled
Code)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.run(Compiled Code)
atoracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(Compiled Code)
Error in loadingcomponent installation..

[sambavan]

Check your environment and make sure that you have set the ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME,PATH, CLASSPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH set correctly. also make sure that your display had been set corrctly for your xterm. I think this would fix you the problem.

Sam