> Date: Sunday, March 06, 2016 17:12:24 -0600 > From: g <geleem at bellsouth.net> > > On 03/06/16 14:48, Richard wrote: > <<>> > >> You may want to look at the yum "shell" option (man yum-shell). >> > -- > > interesting. > > would you presume that something like this might run? > > yum-shell install < pkg-list.file > Read the man page. What you are suggesting is not how it works. >> The dvd iso and netinstall approaches are very different. The dvd >> has everything while netinstall assumes you pull the packages from >> somewhere. If I'm doing more than one machine I always pull all the >> packages to a local machine and use that for my netinstll source. >> > -- > > aware if use/purpose of netinstall. as stated, used netinstall on > laptop with 6.5 without problems. > > may have been because it only has 1 cd/dvd drive and 3 usb ports. > where as desktop has 1 sata cd/dvd and 7 usb ports with 1 cd/dvd > at port 7. > Actually what you said was: > something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 > dvd1 on my laptop without any problems. so did you do (are you doing) a netinstall, or an install from DVD? Isn't DVD1 a bootable iso and, along with DVD2, a comprehensive package set? I.e., if you have DVD1 (and ideally 2) why would you do a netinstall? The Centos-7 netinstall iso at least does give an option for using a cd/dvd based iso as the package source, but the default is one of a range of network based options.