On 12/15/2015 10:15 AM, ken wrote: > > It's good to that. I've just tried that seven times (three different > flashdrives 'dd' using different USB ports, then created one CD) and > the media test failed each time. I wish those downloads listed > cksums/md5sums. As far as I can tell, they do: http://mirror.confluxtech.com/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ Various sums for the ISOs, and signatures for the sum file. > It's good to have all this info together in one email. > > On the other hand, people should know the Minimal really sucks: > > * No dual-boot set up. CentOS is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, whose target use case is business servers and workstations. Dual-boot is not a typical or supported use case for RHEL. Dual-boot can be set up manually by editing /etc/grub.d/40_custom: menuentry "Windows" { set root='(hd0,1)' chainloader +1 } Adjust (hd0,1) to match the partition number where Windows is installed. Run "grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg" > * The resultant OS was text only. I.e., it wouldn't run init 5... > trying to do so would cause to hang. I don't recall who recommended that you use the Minimal ISO, but it was bad advice. Minimal is useful to experienced admins who want to build a very small system image with only the specific packages they need. It can be used to build a desktop system, but that's a lot of work (or knowledge). You would have been better off with CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.iso or CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1511.iso (or KDE). I apologize on everyone's behalf for not contradicting that advice. > * Maybe the above problem was due to bad coding somewhere-- the entire > OS horked a couple times... then I finally saw error code saying, > "kernel panic". I haven't gotten one of those in decades. There's not much to go on there. We have no idea what caused the panic, whether it was a bug or not. > Geez, what a terrible ISO distro! I don't think that's a fair assessment. CentOS (and RHEL) is one of the most stable systems I've ever used.