Re: 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

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At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:17:24 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 network interface configured. 
> Also, it won't let you choose the install mode, I guess it defaults to 
> Minimal (which is fine by me, but still it's a bug).
> 
> If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, and 
> this one allows you to configure the hostname, the networking details, 
> and choose the install mode. The system boots up with networking and all 
> the niceties enabled.

I don't know if this relates or not, but attempting to install FC15 in a
VM with only 512M of memory, fails: the kernel / installer hangs.  It
looks like the minimum memory requirements to install FC15 (and it looks
like RHel / CentOS 6 as well) is something greater than 512meg and probably
something closer to 1G.

> 

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