CentOS-4.3 Install Fails - Discuss

17 Mar 2007


      I'm using the same CD's that I've used to install CentOS on my other
systems.
After the first failure I had the installation verify the install media just
in case.  It passed.
I've tried the default install (used for all previous installs) and the i586
option (after googling). They both fail in the same way.
Here is a transcript of what is output to the screen:
Running anaconda, the CentOS-4 i386 system installer - please wait.
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform independent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:exec_prefix]
'import site' failed ; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 28, in ?
    import sys, os
ImportError: No module named os
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals.done
sending kill signals.done
disabling swap.
unmounting filesystems.
/mnt/runtime done
disabling /dev/loop0
/proc/bus/usb done
/proc done
/dev/pts done
/sys done
/tmp/ramfs done
/mnt/source done
/selinux done
you may safely reboot your system
Motherboard    Intel                  D945GCL
CPU                Intel                  Pentium-4 631
RAM               Aeneon            512 Mb 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM - DDR2
667
PATA Disk      IBM                 40 Gb PATA Disk (DeskStar) - System Disk
SATA Disk      Hitachi              80 Gb SATA Disk (DeskStar) - Backup Disk
Disk Carrier     Vantec             MRK-200ST-BK
Case                Antec               TX1050B
The system disk (IBM 40Gb DeskStar) was used in a previous system ad has
CentOS-4.3 loaded on it.
It won't boot in graphical mode due to an X-Windows failure. So I decided to
re-install.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Charles L. Sliger,  Information Systems Engineer,  chaz@bctonline.com
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