[CentOS] Installation of 6.0

[Craig White]

On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:

> On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote:
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>> On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote:
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Some observations.
>>> 
>>> When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration.  I do static IP addresses, not DHCP.
>>> 
>>> I ended up manually configuring the various /etc/sysconfig files.  I forgot to do the GATEWAY configuration and it took me awhile to figure out why I wasn't able to connect to the server from outside the LAN.
>>> 
>>> I also forgot to do the DNS settings.  It's deja-vu all over again, going back to the older Red Hat Linux distros.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I wasn't able to find a configuration program like "netconfig" to help me out.  Seems like a pretty big omission.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?  Am I missing something?
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> [SNIP]
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>> Guessing that you didn't look/watch the console on first boot but rather used ssh to connect from another station. If you haven't rebooted the system since the first boot, hook up a monitor/keyboard/mouse and see.
> 
> Operation of the firstboot script depends on having a GUI installed.  It
> doesn't get executed if you installed just the base system.
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actually, I haven't installed RHEL or CentOS v 6.x at all - just going on recollection but even if it boots text mode, it still seemed to run a firstboot configuration program.

Craig