On 19 February 2014 03:01, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but
> when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum
> command I've tried) I get a repo error - "
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was
> 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'mirrorlist.centos.org'"
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>
> I looked in the repo.d and the base CentOS-Base.repo suggests that if
> the mirrorlist= does not work I should try the commented out baseurl>
instead. But I don't seem to have nano and can't install it - yum
> install fails as above.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Dave
>
>
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> Does the VirtualBox VM have access to the internet, are there any proxy
setting on the host?
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Earl Ramirez