[CentOS] lost at 'repository' entry installing centos7

Sat Feb 7 18:34:44 UTC 2015
g <geleem at bellsouth.net>


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.


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