Brian, could you tell what has been tough? I installed 3 laptops running 7.2 and Oracle 8.1.7 for development and they all worked like a charm, no problems at all. I did used the laptop pre-selection of packages from RedHat 7.2 and installed some updates, but then using the instructions written in the document I wrote, everything went fine. You just have to make sure that you get the compat-* packages from the RedHat 7.2 CD.
