Folks
I tried the net-install, because my computer has no DVD, only a CD. The system has a USB connected keyboard, and it works just fine accessing the built-in BIOS.
However, when I booted the netinstall CD, the initial screen which asks for the type of installation did not respond to the keyboard. I was therefore forced to wait the 30-seconds for the timeout, at which point the install screen showed up and the keyboard worked.
I fear that the net-install image may not support USB keyboards, which if so, is unfortunate.
The alternate of burning multiple CDs (as I've done with earlier versions) appears unavailable in CENTOS 6.
Furthermore, I was never given the choice of using a GUI or text install; I guess the old display device isn't supported in the install system. Not being given any choices of packages during the install (a fact noted in the release notes) resulted, however, a system where a lot of the expected utility programs weren't there.: a) "yum" worked b) No SSH client appeared to exist, nor did YUM know about it. c) Several useful utilities were not there, so they had to be installed via yum.
As a result, the process of bringing this system to a usable state consisted of: 1) Burn net-install CD 2) Answer the few questions. 3) For the net-install site, use http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386 4) When it boots, use yum: yum install ftp perl unzip 5)
COMMENT: One of the nice properties of Linux has been that it can be installed and run on "old" hardware. I wonder if this feature is going away.
David