LOG for upgrade of the Gourd server hardware to Centos 7.

Initial

Gourd would not boot from a USB stick. It seems the HW doesn't support this, though it is also possible the fault is with the front USB port. Boot from installer DVD.
Standard server install
No ethernet driver: nForce ethernet "forcedeth" not available, use the kmod-forcedeth driver from elrepo.org: http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
Note that Centos 7 (i.e. RHEL 7) comes standard with "firewalld". Not wanting to bother with "yet another config system for firewalls (tm)", this was disabled in favor of good old iptables, which is the underlaying system anyway. This policy may change int he future. (To disable firewalld: "systemctl stop firewalld ; systemctl mask firewalld'. To setup iptables: "yum install iptables-services; systemctl enable iptables", and then of course, configure the tables.)
Network interfaces are now renamed to a "consistent scheme" see: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/ch-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html
FARM network = enp0s8, UNH network=enp0s9

Upgrading to Centos 7