[CentOS] CentOS 6 DVD install "Unable to read group information from repositories"

[Trey Dockendorf]

This must have been an issue with my specific external dvd drive.  Used
netinstall disk successfully...yay centos 6!

Now where is the best place to post bugs regarding KVM in centos 6?
On Jul 13, 2011 9:59 AM, "Trey Dockendorf" <treydock at gmail.com> wrote:
> This was 64 bit install and the media checks were good. I also
successfully
> used the same install media on another system. Ill try the suggestions and
> see if the drive is having problems.
> On Jul 13, 2011 1:27 AM, "Ljubomir Ljubojevic" <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
>> Trey Dockendorf wrote:
>>> Tried my first CentOS 6 install on a system currently running 5.6. My
>>> attempt was not an upgrade, but a full re-format. I have verified the
>>> checksums of the ISO and did the pre-install disk verify and everything
>>> checked out. However after the screen for setting up the bootloader I
>>> get the following error
>>>
>>> "Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem
>>> with the generation of your install tree"
>>>
>>> With my only options being "Exit Install" and "Retry", but of course
>>> "Retry" continues to fail with the same message.
>>>
>>> Basically I chose the first option in the menu for the DVD, install /
>>> upgrade, went through all the settings, did a custom layout for
>>> partitioning. I basically told the installer to re-format my ext3
>>> partitions to ext4 and set the mount points for / , /boot and swap.
>>> Then after selecting "Next" from the bootloader configuration is when I
>>> get the above error.
>>>
>>
>> 1. Was this i386 or x86_64?
>> 2. Have you run Media test od DVD('s) in system in question? Maybe DVD
>> drive can not read them right. Especially if you used higher speed to
>> burn the disk. I would recommend slow burning like 4x when you burn OS
>> DVD's (and 16x for CD's).
>>
>> And have you by any chance tried the same DVD('s) on any other system?
>>
>> Ljubomir
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