It appears my response was rejected since that last response showed up right away. Will post in multiple times. Yes I did follow those suggestions on the link. Corresponding info:
(after entering ctl-t c in the installer)
lsmod | grep hpsa: hpsa 86179 0 scsi_transport_sas 25177 1 hpsa
dmesg | tail -20: [ 10.626210] ipmi_si 0000:01:04.6: IPMI kcs interface initialized [ 11.442189] [drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting. [ 11.442395] [drm:radeon_init [radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module! [ 12.184117] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 16.801873] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com [ 39.060014] usb 6-4: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci [ 39.257382] usb 6-4: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387 [ 39.257430] usb 6-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 39.257476] usb 6-4: Product: Mass Storage [ 39.257517] usb 6-4: Manufacturer: Generic [ 39.257558] usb 6-4: SerialNumber: 4D85729C [ 39.257930] usb-storage 6-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 39.258112] scsi host3: usb-storage 6-4:1.0 [ 40.311902] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Flash Disk 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [ 40.313660] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 2007040 512-byte logical blocks: (1.03 GB/980 MiB) [ 40.314777] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 40.314824] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [ 40.315895] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 40.320643] sdb: sdb1 [ 40.324266] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
lsblk: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb 8:16 1 980M 0 disk `-sdb1 8:17 1 979M 0 part /mnt sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sda 8:0 1 1.9G 0 disk `-sda1 8:1 1 710.5M 0 part
(note attached usb drive sb1 so I could transfer the output from diagnostics)