They are on the 1st and 4th CD from RH 7.0 distribution. First, try not to get any RPMs, since you may have already installed them when you were installing your Linux on your computer. Start with 4th CD of RedHat 7.0 distribution. Then I prepared for Oracle install. But obviously, if I was preparing a PC solely for Oracle, I would do what they say in Installation Guide and created partitions.
Local copy is here .
Updating RH7.0 glibc Since Oracle8i is compiled with glibc2.1 and RH7.0 has glibc2.2, there is a problem. In needed it during installation. Before you can actually install Oracle, you have to religiously apply the glibc latest updates. Now, you also need a tookit which will temporarily substitute glibc2.2 for glibc2.1 during installation. Local copy is here .