[CentOS] Installation of 6.0

Tue Sep 20 22:25:45 UTC 2011
Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net>

On Tuesday 20 September 2011 17:39, the following was written:

>  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.

I guess it would all depend on what ISO you are using then because I built a 
new system this weekend using 'CentOS-6.0-x86_64-minimal.iso' and upon reboot 
I never get anything for first boot.  I had to edit my configuration files by 
hand to get the system online.

NetworkManager is a POS and should be dropped.
Of course this is my opinion and I stand by it.


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