I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my server installs -- in text mode. But it looks like there's no option to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
* Set hostname * Set network settings * Choose packages
I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to install a server is incredibly painful.
Cheers
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Joe Mata wrote:
I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my server installs -- in text mode. But it looks like there's no option to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
- Set hostname
- Set network settings
- Choose packages
I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to install a server is incredibly painful.
Use the GUI, or a kickstart, or VNC. Please read the release notes.
jh
I did actually. They and the RHEL 6.0 release notes don't state that hostname and network settings configuration options are unavailable:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati...
So this is correct -- no option to set these at install time using the text based installer, eh? Such a shame.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 15:42, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Joe Mata wrote:
I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my server installs -- in text mode. But it looks like there's no option to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
- Set hostname
- Set network settings
- Choose packages
I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to install a server is incredibly painful.
Use the GUI, or a kickstart, or VNC. Please read the release notes.
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On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 05:57:57 PM Joe Mata wrote:
I did actually. They and the RHEL 6.0 release notes don't state that hostname and network settings configuration options are unavailable:
...
So this is correct -- no option to set these at install time using the text based installer, eh? Such a shame.
The system will offer you the option to set those up during firstboot, with a text-mode interface, at least on upstream RHEL 6.1.
And, yes, it's somewhat unfortunate that it's not specifically documented that networking can't be set up in the text mode installer. Even in the GUI installer you have to manually click the button unless the install path you have chosen needs networking for installation.
Including network and other option setup in text mode apparently presented bloat in anaconda, and made it bigger than it already was..... (search the upstream EL6 beta list, please, for several messages about that.....)
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:14 -0600, Joe Mata wrote:
I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my server installs -- in text mode. But it looks like there's no option to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
- Set hostname
- Set network settings
- Choose packages
I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to install a server is incredibly painful.
---- get comfortable with a Linux editor
set hostname (probably gateway too) in /etc/sysconfig/network
setup network adaptors in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
yum search/yum install for packages
Craig
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:14 -0600, Joe Mata wrote:
I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my server installs -- in text mode. But it looks like there's no option to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
- Set hostname
- Set network settings
- Choose packages
I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to install a server is incredibly painful.
Try using Kickstart, especially if you are deploying multiple servers. Believe me, it makes life MUCH easier.
Josh
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