Quoting Earl A Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com>: > 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? seems so - I have a terminal and can ping out and ftp, the host computer is a home ubuntu box on a wifi network, I'm typing right now on another computer on the same network, I'm not aware of any connectivity issues, I haven't set up any proxy. Dave > > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > -- > Kind Regards > Earl Ramirez > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket - George Orwell