Installation NEVER WORKS! Problems

I've been trying for a week now to install cPanel. It either doesn't install, or finishes with lots of errors.

At the moment, it's running but with missing components. I get the following:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
Reading repository metadata in from local files
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Attempting to install missing CPAN items: lynx
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos

update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00

base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00

addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00

extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files

update : ### 1/16
update : ###### 2/16
update : ######### 3/16
update : ############ 4/16
update : ############### 5/16
update : ################## 6/16
update : ##################### 7/16
update : ######################### 8/16
update : ############################ 9/16
update : ############################### 10/16
update : ################################## 11/16
update : ##################################### 12/16
update : ######################################## 13/16
update : ########################################### 14/16
update : ############################################## 15/16
update : ################################################## 16/16

primary.xml.gz 4% |= | 24 kB 00:09 ETA
primary.xml.gz 8% |== | 48 kB 00:09 ETA
primary.xml.gz 13% |=== | 72 kB 00:08 ETA
primary.xml.gz 17% |==== | 96 kB 00:08 ETA
primary.xml.gz 22% |===== | 120 kB 00:07 ETA
primary.xml.gz 23% |===== | 128 kB 00:09 ETA
primary.xml.gz 34% |======== | 184 kB 00:06 ETA
primary.xml.gz 38% |========= | 208 kB 00:06 ETA
primary.xml.gz 43% |========== | 232 kB 00:05 ETA
primary.xml.gz 47% |=========== | 256 kB 00:05 ETA
primary.xml.gz 52% |============= | 280 kB 00:04 ETA
primary.xml.gz 56% |============== | 304 kB 00:04 ETA
primary.xml.gz 61% |=============== | 328 kB 00:03 ETA
primary.xml.gz 65% |================ | 352 kB 00:03 ETA
primary.xml.gz 70% |================= | 376 kB 00:02 ETA
primary.xml.gz 73% |================== | 392 kB 00:02 ETA
primary.xml.gz 77% |=================== | 416 kB 00:02 ETA
primary.xml.gz 82% |==================== | 440 kB 00:01 ETA
primary.xml.gz 86% |===================== | 464 kB 00:01 ETA
primary.xml.gz 91% |====================== | 488 kB 00:00 ETA
primary.xml.gz 95% |======================= | 512 kB 00:00 ETA
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 534 kB 00:00 ETA
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 534 kB 00:10
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

If anyone can please help, do so. I'm tempted to move to Windows with Plesk because of these problems. I have clients waiting for this new server. I'm running CentOs 4.1, clean install.

CAN ANYONE HELP?

Thanks.

 

Thanks

Thank you. I'm looking into it now.

 

Found the following on the CentOS forums:

Try specifying an actual mirror in your yum.conf to see if it works. Sounds like the mirror it's going to isn't synched or something.

[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

Seems to be getting further now and actually downloads the packages. I'll remove it once done and see how it goes. It may be due to the release of 4.2 and the synching of mirrors. I'll give it a few days, but at least it's updating now and i can hopefully get things working.

Thanks.

 

still ongoing

Problems persist. CHKSERVD never works after install, MySQL has lots of permission problems, GD never installs and complains about checksums. YUM seems to be the issue and updating the repository doesnt work properly.

Can anyone advise me about the installation and what NOT to install? I did a clean install, without ANY services such as DNS, MAIL, MYSQL, etc...

Can anyone provide basic installation instructions for CentOS 4.1? Just out of interest.

I tried Trustix 2.2 and it worked fine first time and everything functioned correctly, but i'd prefer running CentOS 4.1.

Thanks.