FOG Installation stuck on 'Preparing Package Manager'

[Timmaaahh]

Dear community,

I have a problem with the installation of FOG on CentOS.
The installation of FOG is stuck at the ‘Preparing Package Manager’ step (16 hours and counting):

I tried to use diffrent parameters for the instsallation, but every time it’s just stuck at this step…
The server (VM) is hosted on ESXi.
I have tried to install FOG on CentOS in Hyper-V but i get the same error.
Partitioning is correctly done, and the server has full connectivity to the internet.

I have no clue what i do wrong.
Can somebody help me troubleshooting?

Thanks in advance,

Tim de Ruiter

[Sebastian Roth]

@Timmaaahh Please run yum update to see if there is an issue with your package manager. Post the full output you get.

[Timmaaahh]

@sebastian-roth Thanks for getting back at me.

I get the following error:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘appstream’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist.

Never seen this error before…

-Tim

[Sebastian Roth]

@Timmaaahh I am sorry, we can’t help you with that one. CentOS 8 is dead: https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/

I suggest you look into using the new upcoming distros like Rocky or Alma Linux. Both have migration scripts so you don’t need to start from scratch.