The installation stops with the following error (translated from Italian):

Error: You do not have sufficient privileges to write to
the specified path. in the component Database
Configuration Assistant 9.2.0.0.0 . This component
installation can not continue.

Then it asks if I want to stop the installation or continue with
other components.

Is there a way to know which is the path where he cannot write to?

Thanks.

Alessandro.

test :
As root I did:

mkdir /oradata
chown oracleracle /oradata

then I switched to the user "oracle" and run the installer: it worked!

Alessandro.

testnews (AT) despammed (DOT) com (test) wrote in message news:<UIVac.19538$jY1.16112 (AT) tornado (DOT) fastwebnet.it>...
Hi, I had the exact same problem and was searching for the answer when
I found your (unanswered) question.

I found the answer elsewhere, (
http://www.dizwell.com/html/9i_-_red_hat_9.html
) but figured I should post the answer here.

I realized I hadn't set ORACLE_BASE, which appears to have solved the
problem for me.

testnews (AT) despammed (DOT) com (test) wrote in message news:<yVebc.21279$jY1.9328 (AT) tornado (DOT) fastwebnet.it>...
Yeah, that fits with what I found. If you set ORACLE_BASE to where
you are installing the software, it will put db instance files
$ORACLE_BASE/oradata, but if the env var is unset, it would presumably
default to /oradata