On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:27 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > On 03/05/16 20:22, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:48:17PM -0600, g 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. >> <snip> >>> so you are saying that netinstall is incorrectly written because it ask >>> for a cd and not an internet connection? 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. >> >> The last time I used the netinstall CD (on Centos 6, not very many >> months ago) it asked for a URL, not a CD. >> > -- > > why am i not surprised. :-D > > what got bombed was originally installed as 4.5 via dvd. so i have > not had 'joy' of knowing the problems of a fresh install in a while. > > i am glad to say that by chance, day before problems i did run a > 'yum list installed'. i am about 40% of getting system back to where > it was. > > is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering package > names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a bit slow. yum group list and yum group list hidden and then yum group install "group name goes here" "another group name goes here" > > something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 dvd1 on > my laptop without any problems. It contains the packages on the media. Netinstalls grab the latest versions of the packages. If you do a netinstall, and then a yum upgrade after rebooting, nothing needs to be updated. If you download even CentOS 6.7 and do a yum upgrade a bunch of stuff will get replaced. -- Chris Murphy