There some known installation problems. It is similar to the Pentium4 bug in the Oracle 8i and before Universal Installer. You may have to copy all of it to a local filesystem and install from there after modifying the options file.

Unfortunately, this is Oracle 9i we're trying to install. However, we *DID* have issues attempting to do an install from a network-mounted disk. So we copied the install media to a local drive and (after 15 minutes of man-page reading) managed to un-CPIO the .CPIO.gz files.

There is also a known issue with the Listener not listening on the proper port, on HP-UX... or so I have heard... that is! Not that I have seen the documentation...

Hmmm. I might have to look into that...Sounds suspiciously familiar to what we've been seeing.

Even the local "Oracle guru" guy threw up his hands in frustration and said "beats the hell out of me" after a couple hours of looking at it and getting nowhere.

Of course, we've asked them if we could wipe the box completely clean, get a fresh install of HPUX, and then install Oracle. It's a testing box in a testing environment. Gotta figure that's done reasonably often. But they've denied us. So, oh well. They don't have this Oracle instance for testing...</rant>

Of course this is all conjecture... but then again maybe not... Do you have Oracle Software Support? Call'em they Really are good about these kinds of things if you don't have anyone there that cn fix it.

Not sure. I'm merely here as a conslutant.