On 02/07/2015 03:21 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: <<>>
Could you not see any drives? Or that you there wasn't space to install on that drive?
yes, c7 install shows sda, sdb and sdc.
my thinking shifted from a straight install of c7 to using a fresh and updated c6 install and run "yum upgrade CentOS-7.0-1406".
Upgrading to CentOS7 from CentOS6 isn't as sumple as 'yum upgrade CentOS 7.0-1406'. You need to follow the instructions here:
as stated above "fresh and updated c6 install" which brought it up to c6.6.
pulled page for off-line ref.
next i installed c6.4 to sda as sda1= /boot, sda3= swap, sda3= /, sda5= /home.
Why CentOS 6.4? 6.6 is the latest release. There are a bunch of security holes in 6.4's installation media.
the install was updated. see "as stated above" above.
so an 'in between' question, how do i go about changing /etc/localtime so that i can reboot, change bios clock to utc and have desktop show correct utc-6 time with bios set to utc time?
Look in /etc/sysconfig/clock to tell the system that your clock is UTC. The GUI tool 'system-config-date' (in a package with the same name) is a graphical tool for setting date/timezone settings.
/etc/sysconfig/clock shows ZONE="Etc/GMT-6".
running 'system-config-date' from cli, and setting hardware clock to UTC and system clock to CST, several times, 'hwclock' kept showing clock to be CST. so, i ran 'system-config-date' one more time and selected UTC for both and set clock to UTC time. weird, but that set bios clock to UTC and i was able to open 'System Settings' window, select 'Date & Time', and set system time to correct time using chicago as time zone. too bad it does not have CST in settings because i live in memphis, tn. ;-)
shame all that could not bet set correctly using 'hwclock'.
thank you for replying.
now for some 'head rest', then some reading of centos upgrade tool before i go back to attempt install.