Originally posted by goradba
Hello,

1.First you have to a create new user,you can't run runinstaller by root user
2. Run xhost+ command from root
3.Login with new user(normally ORACLE with oradba primary group and orainstall and oraoper sub groups).
4. After loging by oracle user apply two commands
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
and
/usr/i386/bin/i386
run both the commands.

after that run your ./runinstaller

Try this and send me the result.

Take care
bye
But little problem!
Oracle 8.1.6 incompatible with Linux RH 7.3.
Oldest version for Oracle 8.1.6 (without downgrade) RH 6.2!