Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 06:25:45 PM Robert Spangler wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2011 17:39, the following was written: 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

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 09:23:03 PM Robert Nichols wrote: That hasn't been my experience, and the RHEL 6 Installation Guide says: The first time you start your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system in run level 5 (the graphical run level), the FirstBoot tool appears, which guides

[CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
Some observations. 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. I ended up manually configuring the various /etc/sysconfig files.  I forgot to do the GATEWAY configuration and it took me

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/21/11, Al Sparks data...@yahoo.com wrote: Some observations. 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. IIRC, it's in this small unobstrusive rectangular box that says Setup

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Craig White
On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote: Some observations. 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. I ended up manually configuring the various /etc/sysconfig files.

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote: Some observations. 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. I ended up manually

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Lamar Owen
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

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Craig White
On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote: Some observations. When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration. I do

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Spangler
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

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
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

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/20/2011 04:43 PM, Craig White wrote: Operation of the firstboot script depends on having a GUI installed. It doesn't get executed if you installed just the base system. actually, I haven't installed RHEL or CentOS v 6.x at all - just going on recollection but even if it boots