[CentOS] Installation of 6.0

[Robert Nichols]

On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote:
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> On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote:
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>> Some observations.
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>> When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration.  I do static IP addresses, not DHCP.
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>> I ended up manually configuring the various /etc/sysconfig files.  I forgot to do the GATEWAY configuration and it took me awhile to figure out why I wasn't able to connect to the server from outside the LAN.
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>> I also forgot to do the DNS settings.  It's deja-vu all over again, going back to the older Red Hat Linux distros.
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>> Anyway, I wasn't able to find a configuration program like "netconfig" to help me out.  Seems like a pretty big omission.
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>> Any thoughts?  Am I missing something?
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> 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.

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