On 03/06/16 19:45, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:48 AM, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
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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.
>
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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.
>
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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
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