At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:32:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 11/16/2010 12:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:57:30AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > > > >> At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> X11 installer == game engine? I never use the GUI installer. It is > >> quicker and easier to use the text/console based installer. > >> > > Errm, it was. In one more brilliant following of Fedora (watch us look > > like Windows), the text installer for 6 has been "streamlined and > > simplified" Whoever thought up that wording probably thought up Windows > > Genuine Advantage. > > > > Lemme know how it goes trying to use it on an unpartitioned drive if you > > decide you don't want defaults. > > (The snideness isn't aimed at you--just as Mark mentioned, more like > > Windows all the time. All systems add bloat, the trouble is that RH > > seems to be deprecating more and more CLI configs. > > There never seemed to be a Disk Druid text support for LVM. If you do > not like the defaults (and I rarely do), you either have to be good with > kickstart (I am not) or use the Gui to set up the partitions as you want. Or switch to a shell during the text installer and use the available CLI tools directly (eg fdisk/parted and lvm). This is what *I* have done. > > For some test systems, when all I want to do is throw up a FC/Centos > system, I will just accept the defaults and then I have gotten by with > the text installer. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments