couple of comments. 1) based on the output below I suspect this is a really old version, prob 9i. Does the issue reproduce with currently supported versions 2) does cloning work? On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We use 64-bit RHEL 5.8, kernel 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5. We want to put Oracle > installation files on a shared NFS server. But runInstaller always fails > with "Error in writing to directory /tmp/OraInstall..." message, even > though /tmp has > > Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, > UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2 > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l