On 03/06/16 19:19, Richard wrote: >> 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. > -- i read the 'man yum-shell' and that is what brought me to the question. have you tried "yum-shell install < pkg-list.file" and know for a fact that such will not work? > 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? > -- my bad for confusion. for past 4-5 days, my biorhythms have been off, my back is giving me great pain so i am taking oxyc to help bare with pain, i am more tired than i should be while trying to make an install and now trying to respond, so i did not feel like going into great detail, even tho i now see that i should have. please excuse. i should have written that 1st install to laptop was with dvd1, and i did not allocate enough space for all of what i wanted, so i used a gparted live cd to rebuild partitions. in so doing, i wiped 1st install, made 1 less partition so i could have larger partitions for later install of what ever. centos 7.x along with knoppix 7.6.1 will be among them. second install was with netinstall, after i updated, i pulled in rest of progs i wanted. i just did not have same netinstall with desktop. as for dvd1 and dvd2, what you get when you pull the dvd iso's is seldom latest of progs. unless date is within a day or 2 of current date. even then there is no guarantee. as an example, ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/7.2.1511/isos/x86_64/ is latest loaded and it is from nov 2015. knowing that there are a number of updates from that time, netinstall is better way of installing. > 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. > -- all in all, no one should expect to find all the latest up on mirrors. such would take up too many hours of hard labor to keep mirrors updated, not to mention waste of band width. mirrors have never been know to be current and it is in now practical to keep them current, even for the updates. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .