On 02/06/2015 09:56 AM, Ted Miller wrote: <<>>> I hope you can download the DVD and enjoy Centos 7. "Get Centos 7 > Now" to "DVD ISO" to the list, and pick any link off of the list. > The DVD will be quite self-explanatory. The only caveat is to make > sure you go into the link for your network card and configure it. > Otherwise Centos will start up with the network card turned off.expecting possible problems, i pulled network, live, and dvd iso file at same time. all passed sha256sum check. when i 'dd' dvd iso to a usb stick, it ran ok, but when trying to define partition to install to, i keep getting message that drive was not defined again, even after having wiped sda before running c7 install, so i exited install. maybe i should not have pre sliced drive. my thinking shifted from a straight install of c7 to using a fresh and updated c6 install and run "yum upgrade CentOS-7.0-1406". next i installed c6.4 to sda as sda1= /boot, sda3= swap, sda3= /, sda5= /home. not clearly thinking, when setting time zone, i unchecked hardware clock as utc. which i realized after installing c6.4 and after running "yum update". there seems to be something about yum and hw clock and utc, because yum changed hw clock to utc, which i noted when i closed terminal i had run yum in. i have had this happen before. so an 'in between' question, how do i go about changing /etc/localtime so that i can reboot, change bios clock to utc and have desktop show correct utc-6 time with bios set to utc time? -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .
Jonathan Billings
2015-Feb-07 15:21 UTC
[CentOS] lost at 'repository' entry installing centos7
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:27:17PM +0000, g wrote:> when i 'dd' dvd iso to a usb stick, it ran ok, but when trying to > define partition to install to, i keep getting message that drive > was not defined again, even after having wiped sda before running > c7 install, so i exited install. maybe i should not have pre sliced > drive.Could you not see any drives? Or that you there wasn't space to install on that drive?> my thinking shifted from a straight install of c7 to using a fresh > and updated c6 install and run "yum upgrade CentOS-7.0-1406".Upgrading to CentOS7 from CentOS6 isn't as sumple as 'yum upgrade CentOS 7.0-1406'. You need to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool> next i installed c6.4 to sda as sda1= /boot, sda3= swap, sda3= /, > sda5= /home.Why CentOS 6.4? 6.6 is the latest release. There are a bunch of security holes in 6.4's installation media.> so an 'in between' question, how do i go about changing /etc/localtime > so that i can reboot, change bios clock to utc and have desktop show > correct utc-6 time with bios set to utc time?Look in /etc/sysconfig/clock to tell the system that your clock is UTC. The GUI tool 'system-config-date' (in a package with the same name) is a graphical tool for setting date/timezone settings. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On 02/07/2015 03:21 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: <<>>> Could you not see any drives? Or that you there wasn't space to > install on that drive?yes, c7 install shows sda, sdb and sdc.>> my thinking shifted from a straight install of c7 to using a fresh >> and updated c6 install and run "yum upgrade CentOS-7.0-1406". > > Upgrading to CentOS7 from CentOS6 isn't as sumple as 'yum upgrade > CentOS 7.0-1406'. You need to follow the instructions here:as stated above "fresh and updated c6 install" which brought it up to c6.6.> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeToolpulled page for off-line ref.>> next i installed c6.4 to sda as sda1= /boot, sda3= swap, sda3= /, >> sda5= /home. > > Why CentOS 6.4? 6.6 is the latest release. There are a bunch of > security holes in 6.4's installation media.the install was updated. see "as stated above" above.>> so an 'in between' question, how do i go about >> changing /etc/localtime so that i can reboot, change bios clock >> to utc and have desktop show correct utc-6 time with bios set >> to utc time? > > Look in /etc/sysconfig/clock to tell the system that your clock is > UTC. The GUI tool 'system-config-date' (in a package with the same > name) is a graphical tool for setting date/timezone settings./etc/sysconfig/clock shows ZONE="Etc/GMT-6". running 'system-config-date' from cli, and setting hardware clock to UTC and system clock to CST, several times, 'hwclock' kept showing clock to be CST. so, i ran 'system-config-date' one more time and selected UTC for both and set clock to UTC time. weird, but that set bios clock to UTC and i was able to open 'System Settings' window, select 'Date & Time', and set system time to correct time using chicago as time zone. too bad it does not have CST in settings because i live in memphis, tn. ;-) shame all that could not bet set correctly using 'hwclock'. thank you for replying. now for some 'head rest', then some reading of centos upgrade tool before i go back to attempt install. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .