[CentOS] 6.7 netinstall fails at insert cd to continue

Mon Mar 7 01:19:51 UTC 2016
Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net>

> 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.