On 03/05/16 20:22, Fred Smith wrote:> On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:48:17PM -0600, g wrote: >> >> >> On 03/05/16 09:04, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> You don't say how you created the media. >>> >> -- >> >> true, i did not say how i created cd's. > <snip> >> so you are saying that netinstall is incorrectly written because it ask >> for a cd and not an internet connection? 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. > > The last time I used the netinstall CD (on Centos 6, not very many > months ago) it asked for a URL, not a CD. >-- why am i not surprised. :-D what got bombed was originally installed as 4.5 via dvd. so i have not had 'joy' of knowing the problems of a fresh install in a while. i am glad to say that by chance, day before problems i did run a 'yum list installed'. i am about 40% of getting system back to where it was. is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering package names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a bit slow. something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 dvd1 on my laptop without any problems. -- 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 .
> Date: Saturday, March 05, 2016 22:27:36 -0600 > From: g <geleem at bellsouth.net> > > what got bombed was originally installed as 4.5 via dvd. so i have > not had 'joy' of knowing the problems of a fresh install in a while. > > i am glad to say that by chance, day before problems i did run a > 'yum list installed'. i am about 40% of getting system back to where > it was. > > is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering > package names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a > bit slow. > > something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 > dvd1 on my laptop without any problems.You may want to look at the yum "shell" option (man yum-shell). The dvd iso and netinstall approaches are very different. The dvd has everything while netinstall assumes you pull the packages from somewhere. If I'm doing more than one machine I always pull all the packages to a local machine and use that for my netinstll source.
On 03/06/16 14:48, Richard wrote: <<>>> You may want to look at the yum "shell" option (man yum-shell). >-- interesting. would you presume that something like this might run? yum-shell install < pkg-list.file> The dvd iso and netinstall approaches are very different. The dvd has > everything while netinstall assumes you pull the packages from > somewhere. If I'm doing more than one machine I always pull all the > packages to a local machine and use that for my netinstll source. >-- aware if use/purpose of netinstall. as stated, used netinstall on laptop with 6.5 without problems. may have been because it only has 1 cd/dvd drive and 3 usb ports. where as desktop has 1 sata cd/dvd and 7 usb ports with 1 cd/dvd at port 7. thanks for replying. -- 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 .
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:27 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:> > > On 03/05/16 20:22, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:48:17PM -0600, g wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 03/05/16 09:04, Chris Murphy wrote: >>>> You don't say how you created the media. >>>> >>> -- >>> >>> true, i did not say how i created cd's. >> <snip> >>> so you are saying that netinstall is incorrectly written because it ask >>> for a cd and not an internet connection? 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. >> >> The last time I used the netinstall CD (on Centos 6, not very many >> months ago) it asked for a URL, not a CD. >> > -- > > why am i not surprised. :-D > > what got bombed was originally installed as 4.5 via dvd. so i have > not had 'joy' of knowing the problems of a fresh install in a while. > > i am glad to say that by chance, day before problems i did run a > 'yum list installed'. i am about 40% of getting system back to where > it was. > > is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering package > names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a bit slow.yum group list and yum group list hidden and then yum group install "group name goes here" "another group name goes here"> > something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 dvd1 on > my laptop without any problems.It contains the packages on the media. Netinstalls grab the latest versions of the packages. If you do a netinstall, and then a yum upgrade after rebooting, nothing needs to be updated. If you download even CentOS 6.7 and do a yum upgrade a bunch of stuff will get replaced. -- Chris Murphy
On 03/06/16 19:47, Chris Murphy wrote:> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:27 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:<<>>>> is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering package >> names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a bit slow. > > yum group list > > and > > yum group list hidden > > and then > > yum group install "group name goes here" "another group name goes here" >-- that looks doable, except after haven read man you again for 'group', at this time it is a little more than i feel up to dealing with. after replying to both your post, i am going to try using redirect; yum-shell install < pkgnames.file if works, great. if not, at least i will know yum-shell does not work with redirect input.>> something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 dvd1 on >> my laptop without any problems. > > It contains the packages on the media. Netinstalls grab the latest > versions of the packages. If you do a netinstall, and then a yum > upgrade after rebooting, nothing needs to be updated. If you download > even CentOS 6.7 and do a yum upgrade a bunch of stuff will get > replaced. >-- that seems to be what i seem to recall. -- 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 .