On 12/15/2015 09:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > This one works: > > http://mirrors.mit.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64/ > > I know because I/ve used it for net installs twice in the last > week or two, most recently a Thursday of last week. > >> >Believe me, I wish it did work. I've been at this stupid >> >specification which should be easy and done over with hours ago. >> >But it doesn't work. > I agreee that it would be nice to have some better doc on how to > choose the URL for a net install, I've stumbled around in the dark > at times past trying to figure it out, too. > > but it definitely DOES work if you get the URL right (and if you have > your networking set up correctly, and the mirror isn't broken, and..., > and..., etc.). > > Fred After setting up again another the next morning (yesterday), mit didn't work either. The networking was set up alright-- the third time setting up everything for the third time, and, after all, the configuration page confirmed networking. What could be wrong? Well, I went back into the networking config page and saw it was actually all wrong. It didn't for some reason didn't even change the configuration I put in even after clicking on "Done" (several times). Apparently, 'networking connection' to this setup page must have understood to that to mean only TCP/IP level 2 connection to the AP... yes, it could talk to the AP, but not make an actual to the network. At this point I couldn't trust netinstall anymore, wiped it, and yesterday burned and loaded and installed a LiveCD. Days ago, when wrestling with repos setting up, it occurred to me it would be nice for the app to have a small console in it, something which could be used to confirm (by hand) networking was correct and that URLs were there and active... it would be simple. Apparently it's a bad idea for some reason to make any improvements over what comes from upstream. (Sigh.) Thanks, Fred, for the tip. I'll augment your tip: don't believe it when the netinstall configuration says it's (allegedly) correctly configured.