On 19 February 2014 03:01, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote: > When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but > when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum > command I've tried) I get a repo error - " > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was > 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'" > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base > > I looked in the repo.d and the base CentOS-Base.repo suggests that if > the mirrorlist= does not work I should try the commented out baseurl= > instead. But I don't seem to have nano and can't install it - yum > install fails as above. > > Ideas? > > Dave > > > > -- > Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket - George > Orwell > > Does the VirtualBox VM have access to the internet, are there any proxy setting on the host? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez