penagate
Jul 14th, 2008, 02:11 AM
All,
I've tried very hard to install CentOS 5.1 on several different machines. I've tried the DVD ISO image, I've tried the netinstall image. Both, without fail, bring up an error message during installation, along the lines of:
The file [name of a .rpm file] cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrput package or corrupt media. Please verify your installation source.
If you exit, your system will be left in an inconsistent state that will likely require reinstallation.
Reboot | Retry
With the netinstall image, clicking Retry repeatedly eventually gets it past that RPM — then it happens again on the next package, and the next, and so on, such that a full install takes about six hours and is fairly detrimental to one's health.
With the DVD installer, clicking Retry does nothing. I've tried at least four different DVD images (not all of which were downloaded by me, either) and all have had this problem.
Searching Google for this problem yields only the workaround for the netinstall image.
Am I just incredibly unlucky, or is there some solution that I am missing? I like CentOS, but that is not much help if I cannot even install it.
Edit: I should mention that I've had this problem with both the x86 and x86_64 installers, on a physical Intel Core2 64-bit machine, VMWare Server 32-bit guest and VMWare ESX 64-bit guest.
I've tried very hard to install CentOS 5.1 on several different machines. I've tried the DVD ISO image, I've tried the netinstall image. Both, without fail, bring up an error message during installation, along the lines of:
The file [name of a .rpm file] cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrput package or corrupt media. Please verify your installation source.
If you exit, your system will be left in an inconsistent state that will likely require reinstallation.
Reboot | Retry
With the netinstall image, clicking Retry repeatedly eventually gets it past that RPM — then it happens again on the next package, and the next, and so on, such that a full install takes about six hours and is fairly detrimental to one's health.
With the DVD installer, clicking Retry does nothing. I've tried at least four different DVD images (not all of which were downloaded by me, either) and all have had this problem.
Searching Google for this problem yields only the workaround for the netinstall image.
Am I just incredibly unlucky, or is there some solution that I am missing? I like CentOS, but that is not much help if I cannot even install it.
Edit: I should mention that I've had this problem with both the x86 and x86_64 installers, on a physical Intel Core2 64-bit machine, VMWare Server 32-bit guest and VMWare ESX 64-bit guest.