[CentOS] Crashed a CentOS 8 installation.

Thomas Stephen Lee lee.iitb at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 10:42:23 UTC 2019


Hi,

http://bit.ly/packages-list

missing attachment

thanks

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Thomas Stephen Lee

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:00 PM Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Note: Please do this on a test VM.
>
> My issue:
>
> I took the output of the following command
>
> $ yum list installed | xargs -n3 | column -t  | tail -n +3 |cut -d' ' -f1
> > packages.list
>
> from a CentOS 7.7 Installation.
>
> and did
>
> $ dnf install $(cat packages.list) --setopt=strict=0
>
> on Freshly installed Minimal CentOS 8 VM.
>
> When I reboot I get
>
> Failed to switch root: Specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem
> to be an OS tree. os-release file is missing.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> packages.list attached
>
> thanks
>
> ---
> Thomas Stephen Lee
>


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