When attempting to install RedHat Linux 7.0 on and HP Netserver LM I receive the following error: cpio failed on anaconda/textw/packages_text.pyc: No such file or directory error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic cpio failed on (null): (internal) install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 The install than shuts down elegantly. I am using the the released bootnet image with update-disk-20001009.img. This is a network install. The machine was previously running RedHat Linux 5.2, but I chose to reinstall rather than upgrade.
is your install source downloaded ...? network based? cdrom? did you download the install source file by file, or did you download the ISOs that make up the image ...? can you verify your downloaded ISOs/files ...? A lot of errors of this type (bad cpio magic or other packaging error) occur with incomplete or corrupted downloads ...
The install source is a downloaded ISO image. I've successfully installed two other machines from this image (a couple of HP Kayaks), but that doesn't necessarily mean there is no corruption somewhere. Is there a way to verify an ISO image? Or is there a way to identify which packages or files might be bad, so I can verify them?
If you are using Linux, you can use the 'md5sum' command to compute a checksum on the ISOs you downloaded. The actual checksums should be available in a README style document on the site you downloaded them from.