[CentOS] lost at 'repository' entry installing centos7

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On 02/04/2015 10:22 PM, Ted Miller wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 03:15 PM, Tim wrote:
>> What are you exactly searching for?
>
> Sounds like he is doing a network install, and is looking for the
> network path that must be supplied in order to do the install.

correct.

> If he doesn't have a local repository, then he has to supply the
> first part of the path (e.g. http://..../xyz/ ) and he has to stop
> at the directory level above .../7/ or some such. I have to look it
> up, and don't remember where I have it stashed, since I haven't
> done a network install in many moons. I have sometimes resorted
> to putting in a partial path, and then looking at the error message
> to see if I have to put more or less path into the box. I have
> always thought that this is one of the worst documented spots in
> the installation documentation. I suppose RH thinks only people
> with local, custom repos are using network install, and those
> people do it so many times that they don't need to be reminded what
> to put in the box.

i can agree to that. 2 days of searching both centos and rh sites
provide nothing.

another 2 days of web searching with same nothing.

so i 'bit the bullet' and pulled the live iso.

new problem came up in that in attempting to install to sdb3 partition,
i noted that my sdc partition was divided. partitions where i had sdc1,
sdc2, sdc3 and the extended partition was show as sdd5, sdd6, sdd7.

knowing that i did not have a 4th hdd, i quit install again. stayed off
installing for a day, went back again to look at what i was seeing.

sure enough, still there, quit again, pulled the dvd iso, ran install
from it, 'God was offering little green apples' again.

decided to beat the odds and reconnect the drives, ie, swap the cables
of 1st and 3rd drive. that is when the 'wtf' rang out.

this is an hp box and in infinite wisdom of hp, there are 4 sata
connectors labeled as;

      connectors    to   sata drives  w/  dev label
    [sata0]  [sata5]   [hdd1]  [dvd ]   [sda]  [sr1]
    [sata1]  [sata4]   [hdd2]  [hdd3]   [sdb]  [sdc]

i am not asking why, but i sure am curious as to why with hdd3,
primary partitions show as sdc1, sdc2, sdc3, and extended show as
sdd5, sdd6, sdd7.

'any who', because sata0 had oos 95 and no longer to be used, i
wiped, partitioned, and formatted sata0 for install of centos 7.

hopefully, this evening my ulcers will be calmed down enough so that
any new surprises will not cause an ulcer to rupture.

there may be some who believe that the new install process gui is
'super fine'. there are other names i could call it, but as long as
the centos devs continue as they otherwise have, i will maintain
and contain my other thoughts. ;-)

"God willing and the creeks don't rise", tomorrow i will be enjoying
centos 7.

as a side question, what is a good way to get a list of _all_ packages
currently installed to centos 6.6 so that i can install them to new
install? [note positive thinking] or, an easy script or what ever?

also, in closing, my most _great-full_thanks_ to Tim and Ted for not
being too evolved with "Another Fedora decision" and taking time to
reply to this thread.


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peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6

tc,hago.

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