Why does installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fails with error "error populating transaction after 10 retries" ?

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Issue

  • Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and the same fails with the following error.

    error populating transaction after 10 retries: failure: Packages/vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7.x86_64.rpm from anaconda: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

  • Why does installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fail with above error?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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