On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 January 2014 @16:54 zulu, James B. Byrne wrote: >> RedHat now disables Ethernet by default in RHEL6+. You will need to run ifup >> eth0 to connect after your first install. >> > > Maybe in RHEL, but I did not observe that behavior on the numerous > installs I've done of CentOS 6.x desktop. You have to configure networking during the install and check a non-obvious box that says something like 'start automatically', to get the ONBOOT="yes" setting in the ifcfg-eth? file. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com