cd [Disk1]
gzip -dc /mnt/cdrom/[filename] | cpio -i -v -d
Oracle suggests: cpio -idcmv WRONG FORMAT

the following settings are recommended by: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO.html

#!/bin/bash
# semaphores
echo old SEMMSL SEMMNS SEMOPM SEMMNI are
cat /proc/sys/kernel/sem
echo SEMMSL SEMMNS SEMOPM SEMMNI
echo new SEMMSL SEMMNS SEMOPM SEMMNI are
echo 100 32000 100 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
cat /proc/sys/kernel/sem

# shared memory
echo old shmmax 
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
echo new shmmax 
echo 2147483648 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

echo old shmmni
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
echo new shmmni
echo 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni

# No such file or directory
#echo old shmmin
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmin
#echo new shmmin
#cat 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmin
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmin

echo old shmall
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
echo new shmall
echo 2097152 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall

# No such file or directory
#echo old shmseg
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmseg
#echo new shmseg
#cat 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmseg
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmseg

# No such file or directory
#echo old shmvmx
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmvmx
#echo new shmvmx
#cat 32767 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmvmx
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmvmx

echo old /proc/sys/fs/file-max
cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo new /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

echo old ulimit -n
ulimit -n
echo new ulimit -n
ulimit -n 65536
ulimit -n

echo old /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
echo new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
echo 1024 65000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range

echo old ulimit -u
ulimit -u
echo new ulimit -u
ulimit -u 16384
ulimit -u