On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > You're joking.... >> >> I think the rationale was that they decided to put their efforts into a >> GUI install and it was too much work to continue the functionality of >> the text mode. You'd have to dig through the Fedora testing list, I >> think. > > And GUI is less work? And they couldn't leave the same code in place? The EL5 text mode couldn't do everything you could do in GUI mode (I was sure there were some LVM bits missing). Given VNC works perfectly, as does kickstart, I'm not sure there's a place for a text mode that behaves differently to the graphical installer, and I wouldn't want them wasting any time maintaining it. Tested with VirtualBox 4.0.10, with 1Gbytes of RAM assigned, it installed perfectly in graphical mode, and I was free to reduce the memory after the install. Tested with less memory it did a perfect minimal install. Not tested kickstart yet as I was going to build up a Spacewalk server on CentOS6 first, but I assume that'll all be fine too. No complaints here with their decision to trim the text mode installer. jh