[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

Tue Jul 12 07:10:50 UTC 2011
helpaz <helpaz at gmail.com>

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.