On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:17, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:
(I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.)
If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the network or hostname. The system boots up without a network interface configured. Also, it won't let you choose the install mode, I guess it defaults to Minimal (which is fine by me, but still it's a bug).
If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, and this one allows you to configure the hostname, the networking details, and choose the install mode. The system boots up with networking and all the niceties enabled.
-- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 4. Known Issues The installer needs at least 392MB of memory to work. Text mode will automatically be used if the system has less than 652MB of memory.