Agreed. And in cases where the Oracle Installer is itself installed using ignoreSysPrereqs, I'll instead modify $OUI_HOME/oraparams.ini to add the "offending" OS, just in case some if the SysPrereqs should not be met in the future. My $.02, Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reidy, Ron Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:59 AM To: jrsmiley@xxxxxxxxx; joe_dba@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; stellr@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: 9iRel2 install on RHEL ES4 This changing of /etc/redhat-release is not a very good idea. This file is used by up2date and spoofing it to install software is IMHO, not a very good idea. Better to use the -ignoreSysPrereqs when invoking runInstaller. ----------------- Ron Reidy