[rhelv6-beta-list] No tui network setup on server install

[Troy Dawson]

I'm talking about Beta 2.
I did miss that in the release notes for Beta 1.

"In this Beta release, if a a network-based install is performed, the 
installer will configure the target system with the network settings 
used during installation. Otherwise, users will notice there is no way 
in the graphical or text installer to configure their network interfaces 
on the target system. In future pre-release versions of Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 6, the user will be able to access the NetworkManager 
configuration interface during installation. "

Now that I go back and reinstall, I see that there is indeed a 
"Configure Network" button.

Thanks for pointing that out, I was getting worried.  Although I 
personally almost always do a network install, some of our admins always 
do a DVD install.  And if they had to configure their network settings 
completely by hand, we were going to be in trouble.

Thanks
Troy

Alvin Chang wrote:
> Are you talking about beta 1 or beta 2? It was mentioned in the beta 1 
> release note that unless you did network install, the network won't be 
> configured...
> 
> On 1 July 2010 20:39, Troy Dawson <dawson at fnal.gov 
> <mailto:dawson at fnal.gov>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
>     I guess I'll be the first to bring this up.
> 
>     Doing a basic server install does not install Network Manager - that
>     is good.
> 
>     It also does not install system-config-network - that is bad.
> 
>     Looking at what rpm's are available, system-config-network isn't
>     even offered, it's gone - that is very very bad.
> 
>     So, I look through the RHEL6 documentation, maybe they've replaced
>     it with something.  Yes, they replaced it with NetworkManger.
>     Although in the documentation for editing the configuration files it
>     says
>     "The /etc/sysconfig/networking/ directory is used by the Network
>     Administration Tool (system-config-network) and its contents should
>     not  be edited manually."
> 
>     So I think to myself, let's look in Fedora 13 to see what they
>     changed it to.  But behold, system-config-network is *in* Fedora 13.
> 
>     I'm flabbergasted.  I'm totally stunned.
>     Is RHEL not supposed to be for servers first and desktops second?
>     Why would you purposefully make a sys-admins life harder by removing
>     their network configuration tool.
> 
>     Troy
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