On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:55:12AM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Andy Holt wrote:
From: Keith Beeby
What caught me out (_doesn't_ sounds like it did you though), was that the CentOS 6 x86_64 installer chose to do a text-based install, through lack of support for the graphics card, I guess (this is inside VMware Server 1.0!). The text-based install does not give you a choice of the kind of stuff to install, you just seem to get 'minimal'.
<snip> Huh? I always use the text-based install, and check the select packages (or whatever it is) box, and the next screen's where I go down its list, and go into each, and (un)select what I want on the machine.
Have you done this with CentOS/RH/OLE 6? They've crippled it. In a marketing move that, again in my arrogant opinion, ranks up there with Windows Genuine Advantage, they'll tell you that they've streamlined and simplified it.
I think the rationale was that they decided to put their efforts into a GUI install and it was too much work to continue the functionality of the text mode. You'd have to dig through the Fedora testing list, I think.
However, kickstart functionality remains, so you can always use a kickstart file, and that will enable you to do partitioning, and package selection.