CentOS - Dec 2015 - [SOLVED... prolly] Re: "installation source" specification for netinstall

On 12/15/2015 09:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> This one works:
>
> http://mirrors.mit.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64/
>
> I know because I/ve used it for net installs twice in the last
> week or two,  most recently a Thursday of last week.
>
>> >Believe me, I  wish it  did  work.  I've been at this stupid
>> >specification which should be easy and done over with hours ago.
>> >But it doesn't work.
> I agreee that it would be nice to have some better doc on how to
> choose the URL for a net install, I've stumbled around in the dark
> at times past trying to figure it out, too.
>
> but it definitely DOES work if you get the URL right (and if you have
> your networking set up correctly, and the mirror isn't broken, and...,
> and..., etc.).
>
> Fred
After setting up again another the next  morning (yesterday), mit didn't 
work either.  The networking was set up alright-- the  third  time 
setting up everything for the third time, and, after all, the 
configuration page confirmed networking.  What could be wrong?  Well, I 
went back  into the  networking config page and saw it was actually all 
wrong.  It didn't for some reason didn't  even change the  configuration
I put in even after clicking on "Done" (several times).  Apparently, 
'networking connection' to this setup page must have understood to that 
to mean only TCP/IP level 2 connection to the AP... yes, it could talk 
to the AP, but not make an actual to the network.  At this point I 
couldn't trust  netinstall anymore, wiped it, and yesterday burned and 
loaded and  installed a LiveCD.

Days ago, when wrestling with repos setting up, it occurred to me it 
would be nice for the app to have a small console in it, something which 
could be used to confirm (by hand) networking was correct and that URLs 
were there and active... it would be simple.  Apparently it's a bad idea 
for some reason to make any improvements over what comes from upstream. 
  (Sigh.)

Thanks, Fred, for the tip.  I'll augment your tip: don't believe it when
the netinstall configuration says it's (allegedly) correctly configured.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:23:46AM -0500, ken wrote:
> On 12/15/2015 09:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >This one works:
> >
> >http://mirrors.mit.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64/
> >
> >I know because I/ve used it for net installs twice in the last
> >week or two,  most recently a Thursday of last week.
> >
> >>>Believe me, I  wish it  did  work.  I've been at this
stupid
> >>>specification which should be easy and done over with hours
ago.
> >>>But it doesn't work.
> >I agreee that it would be nice to have some better doc on how to
> >choose the URL for a net install, I've stumbled around in the dark
> >at times past trying to figure it out, too.
> >
> >but it definitely DOES work if you get the URL right (and if you have
> >your networking set up correctly, and the mirror isn't broken,
and...,
> >and..., etc.).
> >
> >Fred
> 
> After setting up again another the next  morning (yesterday), mit
> didn't work either.  The networking was set up alright-- the  third
> time setting up everything for the third time, and, after all, the
> configuration page confirmed networking.  What could be wrong?
> Well, I went back  into the  networking config page and saw it was
> actually all wrong.  It didn't for some reason didn't  even change
> the  configuration I put in even after clicking on "Done"
(several
> times).  Apparently, 'networking connection' to this setup page
must
> have understood to that to mean only TCP/IP level 2 connection to
> the AP... yes, it could talk to the AP, but not make an actual to
> the network.  At this point I couldn't trust  netinstall anymore,
> wiped it, and yesterday burned and loaded and  installed a LiveCD.
> 
> Days ago, when wrestling with repos setting up, it occurred to me it
> would be nice for the app to have a small console in it, something
> which could be used to confirm (by hand) networking was correct and
> that URLs were there and active... it would be simple.  Apparently
> it's a bad idea for some reason to make any improvements over what
> comes from upstream.  (Sigh.)
> 
> Thanks, Fred, for the tip.  I'll augment your tip: don't believe it
> when the netinstall configuration says it's (allegedly) correctly
> configured.
During installation CTRL-ALT-F2, I believe, wikll give you a console
at which you can verify the networking configuration. To be honest,
I can never remember which of the screens accessible by ctrl-alt-fX is
the right one, but I think it's f2, and its not hard to tell by
trying f2, f3, etc.

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On 12/17/2015 10:21 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> During installation CTRL-ALT-F2, I believe, wikll give you a console
> at which you can verify the networking configuration. To be honest,
> I can never remember which of the screens accessible by ctrl-alt-fX is
> the right one, but I think it's f2, and its not hard to tell by
> trying f2, f3, etc.
Okay, so that's why I saw that chick with all that text tattooed on her 
thigh.  Hmmm.

Seriously, that would be a good little piece of documentation they could 
put on the GUI... also how to return from the console back to the GUI.

Too late, but thanks for the info anyway.