cannot install RHEL 6 due to missing or corrupt file!

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I'm trying to install RHEL 6 via USB. After selecting Desktop environment I get the following message: udev-147.2.63.el6.i686.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package or corrupt media. Please verify your installation source. Needless to say, I have checked sha256, redownloaded RHEL 6, switched to a different USB -- went out and bought a new USB, etc., etc... No luck... Any help would be appreciated folks. Thank you.

jt
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R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
1 February 2016 7:35 PM

I had this as a false-positive in my case. The last time I experienced this issue, the problem was not actually a missing or corrupt file, but a bad hard disk, and when it attempted to write to the bad sector, it failed. When it failed, it gave a false complaint of a corrupt or missing file. However, I replaced the hard drive, and it worked fine afterwards. Now I'm not there in your environment, so while this was the case, in my case, it may not be so in yours. Test and check. Since you had the same issue across two different USB sticks, perhaps it is the hard drive. In my case, when I replaced it, I no longer received the error you speak of. Your mileage may vary.

However, if needed, test the installation disk/usb install flash-drive you are using on an entirely different system and see how it goes.

Let us know how it goes.

jt Newbie 15 points
1 February 2016 9:19 PM

Thank for your insight. I too thought that perhaps my HD was screwed up. However, upon rereading some of the documentation here regarding chain loading gave me an idea https://access.redhat.com/documentation/enUS/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/Assign_Storage_Devices-x86.html. But this kept buggingme: "If any storage device contains a boot loader that will chain load the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot loader, include that storage device among the Install Target Devices. Storage devices that you identify as Install Target Devices remain visible to anaconda during boot loader configuration. Storage devices that you identify as Install Target Devices on this screen are not automatically erased by the installation process unless you selected the Use All Space option on the partitioning screen (refer to Section 9.13, “Disk Partitioning Setup”)... " So the solution for me was to add the USB to the install target along with my HD. Not sure if that was exactly the right thing to do, but it worked. Now we're up and running RHEL 6.7 on a crappy acer aspire A0A150. It's a little slow but it works like a charm!

R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
1 February 2016 9:33 PM

Nice find Jeff!

Glad it worked out!

jt Newbie 15 points
4 February 2016 3:03 AM

Thank you!

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