On 02/07/2015 03:21 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: <<>> > Could you not see any drives? Or that you there wasn't space to > install on that drive? yes, c7 install shows sda, sdb and sdc. >> my thinking shifted from a straight install of c7 to using a fresh >> and updated c6 install and run "yum upgrade CentOS-7.0-1406". > > Upgrading to CentOS7 from CentOS6 isn't as sumple as 'yum upgrade > CentOS 7.0-1406'. You need to follow the instructions here: as stated above "fresh and updated c6 install" which brought it up to c6.6. > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool pulled page for off-line ref. >> next i installed c6.4 to sda as sda1= /boot, sda3= swap, sda3= /, >> sda5= /home. > > Why CentOS 6.4? 6.6 is the latest release. There are a bunch of > security holes in 6.4's installation media. the install was updated. see "as stated above" above. >> so an 'in between' question, how do i go about >> changing /etc/localtime so that i can reboot, change bios clock >> to utc and have desktop show correct utc-6 time with bios set >> to utc time? > > Look in /etc/sysconfig/clock to tell the system that your clock is > UTC. The GUI tool 'system-config-date' (in a package with the same > name) is a graphical tool for setting date/timezone settings. /etc/sysconfig/clock shows ZONE="Etc/GMT-6". running 'system-config-date' from cli, and setting hardware clock to UTC and system clock to CST, several times, 'hwclock' kept showing clock to be CST. so, i ran 'system-config-date' one more time and selected UTC for both and set clock to UTC time. weird, but that set bios clock to UTC and i was able to open 'System Settings' window, select 'Date & Time', and set system time to correct time using chicago as time zone. too bad it does not have CST in settings because i live in memphis, tn. ;-) shame all that could not bet set correctly using 'hwclock'. thank you for replying. now for some 'head rest', then some reading of centos upgrade tool before i go back to attempt install. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .