On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 04:44:35 PM Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Guessing that you didn't look/watch the console on first boot but rather used ssh to connect from another station. If you haven't rebooted the system since the first boot, hook up a monitor/keyboard/mouse and see. > > Operation of the firstboot script depends on having a GUI installed. It > doesn't get executed if you installed just the base system. Actually, this isn't correct. On my RHEL 6.1 system, on firstboot with a non-GUI console a curses-based (or a reasonable facsimile of a curses-based) text-mode configurator came up, and allowed me to configure networking and a number of other items. Do an install without GUI (not necessarily a minimal install, but a server install) and see what comes up on first boot. Like I said, that's what my RHEL 6.1 box did on first boot.