Install fails during installation of rpmdb-redhat-4-0.20060803

[John Powell]

John Powell wrote:

> Rick,
>
> Thanks for the responce. Here are the answers to your questions...
>
> These drives are PATA and are setup in a non RAID configuration... 
> just standard IDE (master/slave on the IDE bus 1).
>
> I have tried several attempts using the boot options you specifed...
> ide=nodma
> noapic
> ide=nodma + noapic
>
> All install paths lead to the same error at the same point during the 
> install.
>
> I have also tried swapping out hardware... attempted a single IDE 
> 80gig Barracuda drive, swapped out two different cdrom readers
>
> The end result being I still get the same error. Pretty odd eh? I have 
> never ever had such a hard time installing a linux distro before. 
> Redhat 9 went on smooth as can be with the originally specified 
> config. Ubuntu, Mandrake also had a smooth installation. Fedora Core 5 
> actually hangs during the install however when switching bettween CD's 
> or during some seemingly random RPM (was never the same one during the 
> 5 attempts that I made and usually occurred on the first install disc).
>
> So all of this and I am still left in the dark. Any further ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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So I just did something I should have done a while ago but thought was 
uneccessary since I performed a media check on all install discs.

Accessing the install console on Terminal F2 I attempted to install the 
rpm manually and got the following error...

"error: /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/rpmdb-redhat-4-0.20060803.i386.rpm: V3 
DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e..."

Isn't this exactley what the media check is looking at when verifying 
the contents of the installation disc? Why would media check pass in 
this case?

I am going to try once again to burn another CD and attempt the same 
steps. Who knows... maybe I will get lucky.

Regards,
John