So, I have been reading a couple of posts by people that indicate you have to add a mandrake-10.0 section to the oraparam.ini file. ok...

I have tried everything to put oracle onto my box and I have run out of vasiline. Any thoughts ?

Mandrake 10.0 (installed as 'paranoid')
Blackdown Java 2 SDK 1.4.2
Oracle 10.1.0.2
/etc/ld.so.conf:
-- START
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/applet
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/audio
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/cmm
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/fonts
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/native_threads
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/server
-- END

When I login as oracle and run java I get the stanard help info..
I run the runInstaller for oracle and get unable to load libjvm.so
ok, I modified /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig
now I am getting :

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /home/oracle/tmp/OraInstall2004-09-15_06-38-49PM. Please wait ...Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load ZIP library: /home/oracle/tmp/OraInstall2004-09-15_06-38-49PM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libzip.so