Unable to install CentOS 8 stream as a Virtual Machine

[EricL]

Hello All,

I would like to simulate a customer environment.
Main OS deployed is CentOS 8 stream.
Downloaded last version (CentOS-Stream-8-20240212.0-x86_64).
Every install fails with the same error message
"The following error occured while installing. This is a fatal error and installation will be aborted"
"DNF error: Error in POSTIN scriplet in rpm package coreutils-common"

Did a quick search and found nothing relevant to such an error message during installation

I tried on Vsphere 8 and workstation 16 but both failed at the exact same point.

An install of centOS 9 stream succeeds. (with the same VM hardware parameters 4 CPU,8Gb RAM & 20GB HDD)

Any advice on how to circumvent this issue ?

Thanks in advance,

Eric

[TrevorH]

I'd strongly advise against installing CentOS Stream 8 now. It goes EOL in June this year so you only have 4 months in which to use it. If you want a RHEL 8 clone then use one of the rebuilds listed in my Sig below.

[jlehtone]

my Sig below

Does not look like the one you imply?


There is "no money required" RHEL option, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, and some others that I can't remember. Plenty to choose from.

[TrevorH]

You're right, I think I got annoyed and replaced it with the "go Debian" version!

Have the one from the #centos IRC robot instead

There are various rebuilds of RHEL 8+ including Rocky - #rockylinux, Alma - #almalinux, and OEL - #oracle-linux. Or RHEL has a 16 instance free developer license. There is also CentOS Stream which isn't a one-for-one rebuild and has support in #centos-stream

[EricL]

Hello,

in fact, I really have to install CentOS 8 Stream as it is for a proof of concept of a Backup solution using Veeam for the customer.
Not even a proof of concept as the project has aleady been sold to the customer.

Tried an older installer revision (CentOS-Stream-8-20230308.3-x86_64-dvd1.iso) and the install completed successfuly.
Guess there is something in the newest image that is preventing the installation under VM.

Thanks for your answers anyway.

Regards,

Eric