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. 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.