On 07/12/2011 12:17 AM, Florin Andrei 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.
I saw this in rhel 6 and newer fedora versions, the anaconda text installer comes with minimal options, to have full options you should use GUI or use kickstart.