[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On 07/12/2011 12:17 AM, 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).
>
> 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 saw this in rhel 6 and newer fedora versions, the anaconda text 
installer comes with minimal options, to have full options you should 
use GUI or use kickstart.


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Athmane Madjoudj