At 02:03 PM 3/18/2021, you wrote:> > 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>
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> >
> >
> > 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
> >
>
>But he was talking about a server, something that Apple doesn't have for
a
>long time now.
>
>Simon
Simon:
I am talking about installing Centos on a MacMini, and a
MacPro. Ubuntu works, Centos fails.