At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:17:24 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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). > > If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, and > this one allows you to configure the hostname, the networking details, > and choose the install mode. The system boots up with networking and all > the niceties enabled. I don't know if this relates or not, but attempting to install FC15 in a VM with only 512M of memory, fails: the kernel / installer hangs. It looks like the minimum memory requirements to install FC15 (and it looks like RHel / CentOS 6 as well) is something greater than 512meg and probably something closer to 1G. > -- 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