Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/12/2011 12:17 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything you can use a kickstart to get all the config options in. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread helpaz
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:17, Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org wrote: (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Florin Andrei wrote: (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the network or hostname. The system boots up without a

[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? PLEASE stop this noise, just to hear yourself talk, Ljubomir -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Andy Holt
Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? It means you get to do a graphical install, which you otherwise can't if you don't have enough RAM i.e. less than 652MB. hth Andy ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Andy Holt centos-l...@orgdotuk.org.uk wrote: Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? It means you get to do a graphical install, which you otherwise can't if you don't have enough RAM i.e.

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Andy Holt centos-l...@orgdotuk.org.uk wrote: Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? It means you get to do a graphical install, which you otherwise can't if you don't have

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, Can you decieve this installer with

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? PLEASE stop this noise, just to hear yourself talk, Ljubomir In this context, Russ, Ljubomir Russ for

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:12:21 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, Can you decieve this installer with swap? Overcommit on the host, if you can do that. If you could get a shell before anaconda

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On 07/12/2011 12:10 AM, helpaz wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 4. Known Issues The installer needs at least 392MB of memory to work. Text mode will automatically be used if the system has less than 652MB of memory. Yeah, that's it, I'm reading the notes now.

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/12/2011 1:46 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: On 07/12/2011 12:10 AM, helpaz wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 4. Known Issues The installer needs at least 392MB of memory to work. Text mode will automatically be used if the system has less than 652MB of memory.

[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-11 Thread Florin Andrei
(I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the network or hostname. The system boots up without a network interface configured.

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-11 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:17:24PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the network or

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:17:24 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related