Hi,

I'm trying to install centos stream, but unfortunately it cannot find any repositories automatically. The only way it works is if you add one manually, which I eventually did.
The bug seems to be well known: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16456, but it's marked as solved, which intrigues me, because I have downloaded the latest boot version 20201211.

Any ideas why that is? Have you tried it yet?

I did not read the bug report.

But, I am in the process if installing stream using the boot ISO to a VM. It works the same as the old network GUI installers in that you need to specify the mirror like:

your.mirror.com/centos/8.3.2011/BaseOS/x86_64/os/

Where your.mirror.com is some mirror close to your location.

When you say the old nework gui installer, I'm guessing you're including Centos 7 also. That's clearly not my experience with Centos 7 - I never had to enter anything manually, it would always find the mirror automatically, as long as it was connected to the internet.

Someone on IRC on a Centos channel is saying: "this is when you do netinstall image. i think it was fixed in at some point but returned in 8.3 (not sure about stream 8 installer, i might be okay). same in rhel 8 installer. similar bug in the same module."
Maybe that's a clue for the issue.

When I activate the network interface, during the installation process it tells me: "Failed to set up installation source; check the repo url and proxy settings". This is without me changing anything else. Under details it says: "Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist" etc.


On Centos 7 it simply works, I've just tested it. Indeed, under the installation source it says local. Nonetheless, I am able to go to the next step and start the installer. Maybe that's the only reason why mirrorlink issue has come up in the first place, because with Centos 8 Stream I cannot continue the installation.

Indeed, I see that on Centos 7 you can upgrade afterwards. Weird setup.

I've been using remote mirror as a source for net installs for awhile now so I guess somewhat automatic for me...

Actually this is the bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1910816
So it's actually considered a bug. You're not supposed to enter things manually, if you don't really want to.