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I'm trying to install Mageia 6 and Cauldron using netinstall and a local hard disk mirror, and the installation fails right after the partitioning phase with the message:

retrieval of [tmp/image/media/core/release/media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz] failed

[md5sum mismatch]

problem reading synthesis file of medium "Core Release"

After that, similar messages for Nonfree and Tainted follow and the installation halts.

I have tried updating the media_info files several times, thinking that it might be a bad sync thing, but I always get the same message.

In the past I have installed various instances of 5 and even 6 beta this way and it worked every time. Trying to do the same with 6 and Cauldron fails. Is there something I could try to make this work?

I just used my local mirror to update a couple of Mageia 6 machines (upgraded from Mageia 5) and it worked fine. The problem appears only when I try to point netinstall to the local mirror (Hard Disk option).

You don't mention which netinstall image you are using. I've just tested this using Mageia-6.1-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso and a local copy of the distrib/6/x86_64 tree, and an install of the Xfce DE proceeded without incident (apart from the expected message that the 32-bit repos couldn't be found).

I would try deleting all the media_info directories in your local mirror (including the top-level one) and resync'ing.