I posted this on Oracle Technet as well, but it seems to really be a problem with Mandrake 6.1. Oracle 8.1.5 is installed using a java program. (you have to download a JRE from blackdown first). I was able to successfully install Oracle under both Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1b, but under 6.1 I get the following message when I run the script that starts the Java installer: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please wait... Error in CreateOUIProcess(): -1 : Argument list too long All of my installs and installation attempts have been after fresh installs of Mandrake without significant differences in configuration, and I have used both jre116_v5 and jre117_v3 (both worked with 6.0 and 6.1b, and neither worked with 6.1) There are a number of other people who have had the same problem who have posted on Oracle Technet, but I haven't seen any solutions yet. The problem is always with Mandrake 6.1 (other distros have not reported this problem). I really need to get this working and don't want to have to digress to 6.0 or a different distro. Thanks in advance.
