[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

Mon Jul 11 23:27:07 UTC 2011
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:17:24PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of 
> salt.)
> 
> If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. 
> It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the network or 
> hostname. The system boots up without a network interface configured. 
> Also, it won't let you choose the install mode, I guess it defaults to 
> Minimal (which is fine by me, but still it's a bug).

It's possible--according to RH, it's streamlined and
simplified--accordingto everyone else, it's become a crippled thing.  
I know that there is no option for disk partitioning, and possibly no
option for custom package selection.



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