You could do an init 5 in the rc.local as part of the startup process, and then run the installer. Matt ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Schmitt Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:41 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: EC2 run level and oracle install Hi All, I am messing around with a silent install of 11gR2 on an oracle Linux AMI on EC2 (without Oracle installed already). It seems that the EC2 instance goes straight to run level 4 no matter what the inittab has in it, and Oracle's installer is checking to verify that the host is run level 3 or 5. I know some on the list have messed around with EC2, so was wondering if you ran into this issue before and how you worked around it. Thanks in advance