2008/7/8 MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Herta Van den Eynde > <herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com> wrote: >> 2008/7/7 MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>: >>> >>> This is normal for the graphical installation. >> >> Is it? 5.1 starts up an X-server and asks these questions in a >> graphical screen. >> > > You might want to check that. IIRC, every time I have actually > installed CentOS from the DVD/CD, it goes into the pseudo-graphical > text mode for disk test, language and keyboard, and /then/ it starts > up the X server to do the rest. > > That's how I remember it worked when I installed 4.4 and then 5.0 on > my home desktop, 5.1 on my laptop (and once on my aux desktop at home) > and 5.2 here at work.... > > Cheers. > > mhr Within the past month, I've done 5 installs of CentOS 5.1 on Dell servers via their DRAC interface. They all behaved as I described. Kind regards, Herta -- "Life on Earth may be expensive, but it comes with a free ride around the Sun."