Date: Saturday, March 05, 2016 22:27:36 -0600 From: g geleem@bellsouth.net
what got bombed was originally installed as 4.5 via dvd. so i have not had 'joy' of knowing the problems of a fresh install in a while.
i am glad to say that by chance, day before problems i did run a 'yum list installed'. i am about 40% of getting system back to where it was.
is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering package names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a bit slow.
something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 dvd1 on my laptop without any problems.
You may want to look at the yum "shell" option (man yum-shell).
The dvd iso and netinstall approaches are very different. The dvd has everything while netinstall assumes you pull the packages from somewhere. If I'm doing more than one machine I always pull all the packages to a local machine and use that for my netinstll source.