It is not a diary the most people have rather a *scratch* Emacs buffer. It keeps notes about everything related to Linux, Open Source, UNIX, MacOSX and software engineering.
Installing Oracle 9i AMD64 on x86-64 has a problem on RedHat WS 3.0 Update 4 x86-64 version. It stalls during naeet.o linking. To avoid that happen set:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
before launching Oracle installer. It is something with Java VM does not support Native POSIX Treads, so LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 tells the dynamic linker to use
legacy implementation of Linux threads.
It has been something about GCC version of 2.96 shall be used during Oracle installation but it looks like all right to me with default 3.2.
Oracle installation notes has a list of compatibility packages had to be deployed prior to the installation.