Red Hat Linux - installation help?

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I've tried looking up solutions to this, but so far I've found nothing useful, so I'm hoping someone here has had a similar problem before.

I'm installing Red Hat 9.0 [Shrike].
I downloaded the .isos [from here], checked the md5sum on each, burned them to CD.
It was going alright, up until the installation was 12% complete - I got an error message: <b>"The package libacl cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file or perhaps a corrupt package. If you are installing from CD media this usually means the CD media is currupt, or the CD drive is unable to read the media."</b>

This was on the first disc. I checked, and the relevant file is definitely on there, so I tried burning another CD. Same error.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Try downloading the ISOs from another location. Those might be no good.

RH9 was probably the best of all the old RH releases. I was using it, and still have it on CDs. Everything worked with no problems, after downloading and reinstalling XMMS. I wanted to use the 2.6 Kernel, and tried FC2, and didn't like it at all.

There are also RHEL Clone Releases like White Box, Pink Tie, and Scientific Linux which are allegedly just like RHEL, but available for free downloading, or a nominal CD cost.

Here is the most recent Red hat distro maybe this will work better for you ?

http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/

http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/install.html

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/

to make an ISO:

1. download or use a CD/Data burner

2. Burn the file as an ISO (Hint: use CDBurnerXP PRO3)

3. Restart your computer, and pop the disc in, then it should read the file via BIOS