See my answer below quoted mail... On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Harish Pillay <harish.pil...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I'm trying to install RHEL 5.4 from DVD. During start installing process > it > > gives error : "file ncurses-5.5-24-20060715.i386.rpm cannot be opened. > This > > is due to missing file, a corrupt package of corrupt media. Please verify > > your installation source." > > > > Please let me know urgently what can be done to fix this issue. > > Assuming that you have downloaded the CD from Red Hat Network, you > might want to check it and perhaps reburn the ISO. Or, go get the RPM > in question and check the MD5 of that a compare it against the one on > the CD. > > If the media was shipped to you and it is defective, please do contact Red > Hat (or Red Hat partner) to get a replacement. > > There really is no problem in sorting this out. It is pretty straight > forward. > > Hope this helps. > > <snip> Also, Incase you have "just got the CDs but not official from RedHat"--then, instead of RHEL (RedHat Ent Linux), install the equivalent version of CentOS-- CentOS is the same thing but freely downloadable and free to copy/distribute-- because it is made by using RedHat's spources by community rather than by redhat which charges for support etc. Hope that helps... Regards, NS _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
