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

[John Powell]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:12 -0700, John Powell wrote:
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>>John Powell wrote:
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>>>John Powell wrote:
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>>>>Rick,
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>>>>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
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>>No luck. The new cd I burned yielded the same results.
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>IIRC, CD #2 is the fullest (largest ISO image).  So, there's two things
>to ensure:
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>1. Make sure you're using name-brand 700MB media--NOT 650MB media.
>I tend towards TDK media.  You need a uniform media from the center to
>the edge.  650MB and "bargain basement" media doesn't have reliable
>stuff out at the edge.
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>2. Burn it at less than maximum speed.  CDs are written starting at the
>center of the disk and working out towards the edge in a long spiral
>data track (like an old LP record, but backwards). The faster you spin
>the CD (the higher the write speed), the more "flutter" occurs out at
>the edge and some drives simply don't write well out there.
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Thanks for the suggestion however the discs ARE fine. I have installed a 
seperate system with these discs with no issue at all.

Still looking for a solution...