On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:37 AM, david <david at daku.org> wrote: > Folks > > I tried the net-install, because my computer has no DVD, only a CD. > The system has a USB connected keyboard, and it works just fine > accessing the built-in BIOS. > > However, when I booted the netinstall CD, the initial screen which > asks for the type of installation did not respond to the keyboard. I > was therefore forced to wait the 30-seconds for the timeout, at which > point the install screen showed up and the keyboard worked. > > I fear that the net-install image may not support USB keyboards, > which if so, is unfortunate. > > The alternate of burning multiple CDs (as I've done with earlier > versions) appears unavailable in CENTOS 6. > > Furthermore, I was never given the choice of using a GUI or text > install; I guess the old display device isn't supported in the > install system. Not being given any choices of packages during the > install (a fact noted in the release notes) resulted, however, a > system where a lot of the expected utility programs weren't there.: > a) "yum" worked > b) No SSH client appeared to exist, nor did YUM know about it. > c) Several useful utilities were not there, so they had to be > installed via yum. > you need > 652MB of ram for the GUI install: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0#head-710e17fe8ed8c98a1fe4faee4e11e2135df09fff > > As a result, the process of bringing this system to a usable state > consisted of: > 1) Burn net-install CD > 2) Answer the few questions. > 3) For the net-install site, use > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386 > 4) When it boots, use yum: > yum install ftp perl unzip > 5) > > > > > > COMMENT: One of the nice properties of Linux has been that it can be > installed and run on "old" hardware. I wonder if this feature is going > away. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110712/4e629afd/attachment-0004.html>