10g installation fails on red hat release 9

I was trying to install 10g in my laptop and failed with the messages below. Is there a way to get around this or I'll have to get Linux ES/AS 2.1, ES/AS 3 or UnitedLinux 1.0 to get it installed as mentioned in the installation documentation?

Thanks,

SP

[oracle_at_localhost Disk1]$ uname -a

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13

17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Now I run the installer and boom

oracle_at_localhost Disk1]$ ./runInstaller

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1,

UnitedLinux-1.0 or redhat-3

Failed <<<<

Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this

session can be found at

/tmp/OraInstall2004-06-03_11-46-48PM/installActions2004-06-03_11-46-48PM.log Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 12:27:03 CDT