On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:48 AM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > On 03/05/16 09:04, Chris Murphy wrote: >> You don't say how you created the media. >> > -- > > true, i did not say how i created cd's. > > i used k3b as it is easier, less to remember, than using command line. OK. > usb's sticks were created using unetbootin and fedora-liveusb-creator. > yes, i did not mention that i tried with 2 usb sticks. failure was > same, did not feel it mattered. failure is failure. No, unetbootin is pretty unreliable. I've actually not had it work reliably with Fedora ISOs since forever, but I mainly use (U)EFI systems is possibly why, but it doesn't appear to rewrite the bootloader stuff correctly at all. At this point I've totally given up on it. Fedora liveusb-creator ought to work. But... And it's also currently undergoing a rewrite. The most reliable way to create USB stick media for CentOS and Fedora is dd. > >> Also netinstall used the network as source, not from CD/DVD. So you >> should just leave the source selection on default. >> > -- > > so you are saying that netinstall is incorrectly written because it ask > for a cd and not an internet connection? Seems suspicious to me yes. A netinstall uses a network source, there are no packages on the netinstall media itself. > i would think that the dev's > would have corrected the wording being that netinstall has been a part > of last 2 or 3 versions. > > 'selection on default'? do not recall seeing anything related to such. OK I just ran the CentOS 6.7 netinstall ISO in gnome-boxes and it's not the graphical anaconda that I'm used to with Fedora. There's an "installation method" and it has Local CD/DVD selected at the top, but that clearly needs to be set to URL or it's simply not a netinstall. And then you need to give it a URL for a mirror, like this: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/centos-6-netinstall-network-installation/ This is preconfigured in Fedora for their netinstalls. I have no idea how CentOS does it, but it doesn't appear to be ready to go. -- Chris Murphy