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 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 awhile to figure out why I >>> wasn't able to connect to the server from outside the LAN. >>> >>> I also forgot to do the DNS settings. It's deja-vu all over again, going >>> back to the older Red Hat Linux distros. >>> >>> Anyway, I wasn't able to find a configuration program like "netconfig" to >>> help me out. Seems like a pretty big omission. >>> >>> Any thoughts? Am I missing something? >> ---- > [SNIP] >> >> 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 monitor/keyboard/mouse and see. > > 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 text mode, it still seemed to run a firstboot configuration program.
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