Re: [CentOS] "upstream testing"??

2016-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Everything else is prone to failure. Specifically, but not limited to, unetbootin. Really, people need to just purge unetbootin from memory and stop recommending it. I've never had it work on any (U)EFI system. And more often than not it would

Re: [CentOS] "upstream testing"??

2016-02-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/7/2016 1:00 PM, Bear Tooth wrote: So I put in an install disk for CentOS, and rebooted. It never came near finishing the reboot. Up popped the following: what version of centos was this? you previously mentioned 6.4, thats like 3-4 updates behind the

Re: [CentOS] "upstream testing"??

2016-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
Which System76 model? How is the install media created? Presumably it's a USB stick, but how is it being created? The easiest and most reliable is to use dd. Livecd-tools is also reliable but has a number of options required to boot UEFi systems. LiveUSB Creator should work. Everything else is pro

Re: [CentOS] "upstream testing"??

2016-02-07 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/07/2016 04:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 07.02.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bear Tooth: [Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since its inception; then her PC broke down. We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned

Re: [CentOS] "upstream testing"??

2016-02-07 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 07.02.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bear Tooth: [Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since its inception; then her PC broke down. We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned out utterly unsuitable for us,

[CentOS] "upstream testing"??

2016-02-07 Thread Bear Tooth
[Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since its inception; then her PC broke down. We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned out utterly unsuitable for us, as expected -- as bad for us as Gn