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

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