On 03/06/16 19:45, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:48 AM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: <<>> >> 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. > -- now that i think about it, it was fedora liveusb-creator usb that worked on laptop. my recall has not been up to norm these last few days. :-( >> 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. > -- aware. now i am wondering just how i got it installed with netinstall. right now, i am still wore out, oxyc out, chemo-brain, my thinking may now be what i thought. >> 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. > -- centos devs are a little slow with some things, but quick on others. for sure, if it is a security risk, they get on top of them and 'out the door'. i subscribe to 'announce' for both and centos is usually within 24 hours when a security notice is out. -- 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 .