On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jure Pečar <pegasus at nerv.eu.org> wrote: > I seem to recall from my redhat5/6/7 days that certain installation methods > used for kickstarting only invoked text mode install. Now I read that > graphical install is default in kickstart on el5/6. However, in my test > environment (with older HP DL140G3) I only get text mode install up, even if > I specify graphical in kickstart file, with both nfs and http install > methods. There's no clues on third console, only an info message about > display mode being set to 't'. > > Any clues what am I missing? > -- > Jure Pečar > > This is usually caused by not having enough RAM. I think for el5 you need either 512 or 768MB and for el6 it is more like 1GB (IIRC). When this happens Anaconda will spit out a message to the effect that it is falling back to text right before starting text mode. Not sure if it gets logged anywhere other than stdout. --Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110924/1bbe8a4b/attachment-0004.html>