Oracle 9i / Linux install Help Please

Hi,

Im trying to install 9i on redhat 7.2. I've followed a few web site tips about what to do about installing java, and creating oracle users, setting shared memory and so on. Im still having problems when the network configuration assistant runs up though in the installer. Basically it just sits there listening. Now my machine is called hotrats (after the great zappa/beefheart album :) and the /etc/hosts file contains the following

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost
127.0.0.1 hotrats hotrats

everything resolves ok when i use the apache and when I ping. I've set the SID as database what should I enter as the global database name. I've tried just database but I get the network problem.

I set the hostname and the ip addresses using network configurator.

So thats it basically the listener just listens. If I kill it and at the end of the installation run the netca the test shows that the tcp listener seems to work but the ipc one fails for some reason.

Any idea's ? Oh and does the listener matter anyway on a stand alone machine ? I'm installing oracle so I can learn how to use it by the way.

Please help

Cheers

Steve

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