[Doomflame]

I am in the middle of my install of red hat linux 9. I downloaded the three iso files from www.linuxiso.org, my copy of disk 2 is in my cd drive, and about half way through it i get this:

The package xpdf-2.01-8 cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file or perhaps a corrupt package. If you are installing from CD media this usually means the CD media is currupt, or the CD drive is unable to read the media.

I really don't want to download again to see if the download messed up, and i can't buy it, i am only 14 and i don't have money.

Can anyone tell me how to fix/skip this part or do i need to start over on installation?

Edit: I just put the disk in on my windows xp comp (this one) and i found the file. Does anyone have a copy of the file xpdf-2.01-8.i386.rpm they could send to me?

[Al-Firdaus]

You need to reinstall.

http://ftp2.wss.yale.edu/rpm2html/rh...01-8.i386.html

[JayTheHun]

You could also always do a more stripped-down install of Redhat, something that won't try to install that app.

[Doomflame]

well i found a version of that file online, downloaded it, and made a new cd with the new version instead

same error.



i am going to start install over.

[Doomflame]

now i reinstalled skipping the xpdf file, and i get this:

The package xsane-0.89-3 cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file or perhaps a corrupt package. If you are installing from CD media this usually means the CD media is currupt, or the CD drive is unable to read the media.

Press <return> to try again.

Again, its on disk two.

[PiEp]

I have EXACTLY the same problem. I checked the downloaded .iso MD5 checksum and it's fine. Tested the Disc 2 media, and it PASSES. Even then, I get the same error. Anyone?

[wildpitch]

They do say you learn something everyday..

I had the exact same problem and found this on the Red Hat site, and it worked for me. I'd never thought about slowing the burning of the disc down..!

All three discs must be burned the same way. The trick is that disc
2 is a full 700MB disc, so make sure you use 700MB CDRs, not 650MB ones.
You may also need to slow down the burn speed on disc 2, since data will
be written at the extreme outer edge of the disc and high speeds may
cause the disc to "flutter" out there. Any CDs where the .iso image
is over 640MB I burn at 8x or slower, just for that reason.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/redha.../msg01409.html

[JohnWill]

FWIW, I recently downloaded the RedHat 9 images from on of the mirrors, ran the media check on them, and installed the full-up RedHat distribution, picking all the options. Worked fine, and I burned the disks at the maximum for the particular media I had, 32x. I suspect this depends on the media and the drive, but it is interesting that it's an issue, something to keep in mind...

[PiEp]

Well I have found the cause of my problem. I was installing under VMWare 4 and that seems to have been the cause. When installing off CD2, the system gives this problem. The solution is to mount the .iso image of this CD on the virtual CD drive and everything installs fine.

[lynch]

Originally posted by PiEp:
Well I have found the cause of my problem. I was installing under VMWare 4 and that seems to have been the cause...

Would've helped knowing that from the outset. Glad to here you figured things out and thanks for posting the resolution to your problem.
lynch

[wenchmagnet]

There is another possible fix. I ran into the same problem installing Redhat 9.0 in a virtual vmware machine and found another way around the problem.

Unfortunately I didnt have the ISOs handy to burn me another copy, or to just mount the ISOs as virtual cdroms in vmware. I had also just installed RedHat 9.0 on my laptop from the same cds so I knew the cds were okay.

I just used "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=redhat9cd2.iso bs=1024" on my laptop to make an ISO from the "defective" cd, ftped the ISO from my laptop to my desktop and while the installation under vmware was already saying there was a problem copying xpdf, I changed the vmware virtual machine config to export the ISO I'd just made to the virtual machine as a cdrom drive.

It worked perfectly.

Makes me think the problem is with redhat 9's cdrom access under vmware because I previously installed from the same cds onto the desktop as well (not under vmware) and that worked fine.

I'm using vmware under WinXP Pro.

[JohnWill]

This points to an important issue. It's always key to include ALL the details of the environment when seeking help with a problem. It's pretty obvious that an early suggestion would have been to eliminate VMWARE from the mix if we knew it was there!

[OrionPirate]

I accidentally found another solution to this problem. When the error occurs, insert remove the CD and insert any other CD. This installer will complain that it is the wrong CD, and ask you to insert the correct one. Re-insert CD2, and the installation will proceed quite happily.

After all, I believe VMWare 4 is the problem.

[Dan(Nad)]

Well I have found the cause of my problem. I was installing under VMWare 4 and that seems to have been the cause. When installing off CD2, the system gives this problem. The solution is to mount the .iso image of this CD on the virtual CD drive and everything installs fine.

I am very, very sorry, I do not understand how you managed to fix this problem.

This is the exact same situation that I am in, I have installed VMware v4 and had this same error message

I am very sorry, but could you possibly put this in a simpler way, as I am very new to Linux

Thank you for taking the time to read this

[gakyak]

Hio,

I was having the same problem with VMWare 4.0 and Red Hat 9.0 as mentioned before and found another solution: Edit the CD-ROM device settings - and change the Use physical drive from Auto Detect to the drive letter where the installation cd resides.

Worked for me, hope this helps...

gakyak