[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

Tue Jul 12 19:00:54 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 7/12/2011 1:46 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 12:10 AM, helpaz wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, that's it, I'm reading the notes now.
>
> It's not terribly bad, since there are few systems nowadays with only
> 512 MB of RAM (that you would want to run C6 on). Just a bit annoying.

It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to adjust the 
configured devices on an installed system like you have to do if you 
want to restore a backup onto different hardware.  It's not impossible, 
but you have to know as much about hardware and drivers as the 
mostly-undocumented installer to do it.  If it were simple, you could 
install an image in a comfortably-equipped VM, then clone it to a 
minimal runtime system.  I suppose you could go though those motions to 
get the kickstart file that is logged as part of the install and use 
that to repeat the install.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com