CentOS - Jul 2011 - Setting hostname and network settings in 6.0 text mode installer

I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my
server installs -- in text mode.  But it looks like there's no option
to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?

* Set hostname
* Set network settings
* Choose packages

I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to
install a server is incredibly painful.

Cheers

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Joe Mata wrote:
> I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my
> server installs -- in text mode.  But it looks like there's no option
> to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
>
> * Set hostname
> * Set network settings
> * Choose packages
>
> I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to
> install a server is incredibly painful.
Use the GUI, or a kickstart, or VNC.  Please read the release notes.

jh

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:14 -0600, Joe Mata wrote:
> I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my
> server installs -- in text mode.  But it looks like there's no option
> to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer?
> 
> * Set hostname
> * Set network settings
> * Choose packages
> 
> I really hope I'm missing something because having to use a GUI to
> install a server is incredibly painful.
----
get comfortable with a Linux editor

set hostname (probably gateway too) in /etc/sysconfig/network

setup network adaptors in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX

yum search/yum install for packages

Craig


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On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 05:57:57 PM Joe Mata wrote:
> I did actually.  They and the RHEL 6.0 release notes don't state that
> hostname and network settings configuration options are unavailable:
...
> So this is correct -- no option to set these at install time using the
> text based installer, eh?  Such a shame.
The system will offer you the option to set those up during firstboot, with a
text-mode interface, at least on upstream RHEL 6.1.

And, yes, it's somewhat unfortunate that it's not specifically
documented that networking can't be set up in the text mode installer.  Even
in the GUI installer you have to manually click the button unless the install
path you have chosen needs networking for installation.

Including network and other option setup in text mode apparently presented bloat
in anaconda, and made it bigger than it already was..... (search the upstream
EL6 beta list, please, for several messages about that.....)