At 11:47 AM 3/18/2021, you wrote: >On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 04:44:18PM -0000, Mark Woolfson wrote: > > I have a requirement to load CentOS 7.3 on to a server. I have the > > distribution on a bootable USB key. > >I know this comes up on the list quite often, but if you want security >updates for 7.3, you're going to end up with 7.9 + patches, so why are >you making your life difficult and installing such an old release? > >If a vendor is telling you that you have to run a particular version, >perhaps you should consider finding another vendor, the baseline 7.3 >has a lot of glaring vulnerabilities in it that are readily >exploitable. > >-- >Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos One reason might be that somewhere between 7.3 and 7.9, Centos ceased being bootable on Apple hardware. At least that failure occurred for me on two machines. David