On Tuesday 20 September 2011 17:39, the following was written:
On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 04:44:35 PM Robert Nichols wrote:
On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote:
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.
Actually, this isn't correct. On my RHEL 6.1 system, on firstboot with a non-GUI console a curses-based (or a reasonable facsimile of a curses-based) text-mode configurator came up, and allowed me to configure networking and a number of other items. Do an install without GUI (not necessarily a minimal install, but a server install) and see what comes up on first boot. Like I said, that's what my RHEL 6.1 box did on first boot.
I guess it would all depend on what ISO you are using then because I built a new system this weekend using 'CentOS-6.0-x86_64-minimal.iso' and upon reboot I never get anything for first boot. I had to edit my configuration files by hand to get the system online.
NetworkManager is a POS and should be dropped. Of course this is my opinion and I stand by it.