On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:17, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.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. > > -- > Florin Andrei > http://florin.myip.org/ http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 4. Known Issues The installer needs at least 392MB of memory to work. Text mode will automatically be used if the system has less than 652MB of memory.