[CentOS] CentOS 5 gotchas

[John Summerfield]

Jim Perrin wrote:
> As some folks on irc have pointed out, and has been covered a bit in
> the beta discussions:
> 
> There is no longer a 'Minimal' install option for centos5 in anaconda,
> however if you choose 'Customize Now' and uncheck all the selections,
> you will get a minimal install that only requires disk1, and weighs in
> at around 594MB. With kickstart it is possible to further reduce the
> package set.
> 
> Also, for folks who are used to using vga=foo type settings as kernel
> options, support for this appears spotty on the initial release, and
> this is an upstream issue as well. Bugs have been filed in the
> appropriate place. For now, the workaround for some folks is to remove
> the 'rhgb quiet' kernel options. For others, no amount of vga=
> trickery seems to work. YMMV.

It's always been spotty. Seems to depend on kernel support for the 
graphics set.

I can only get Intel graphics into framebuffer, on several distros, by 
loading i810fb or intelfb after booting and then (maybe) running fbset.

I don't like rhgb or quiet anyway, hides stuff you need when things break.





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