When installing Red Hat from the Official Red-Hat 6.1 CD-ROM, a number of options or selections are not set correctly. I have downloaded and booted from the latest boot images for Red Hat installation (boot-RHEA-1999:044.img). (note: I also tried booting off the updates-RHEA-1999:045.img file but I did not get into setup with this file). The following items are not correct after a fresh install: The domain for the network. This is set to "localdomain", rather than the correctly parsed from the host + domain name that I entered "darth.ant.uci.edu". Also, the network adapter is set to "localhost.localdomain" rather than "darth.ant.uci.edu". Boot to text mode not graphics. The system will boot to text mode and not graphics, even though I selected "Use graphical login". This occures if I customize the X-Configuration (which I do solely to select a lower resolution). Mouse configuration. I select the "Microsoft/Intellimouse" and then deselect "Emulate 3 buttons". However, when I finish install and reboot I have to go to setup and unselect "Emulate 3 buttons" again. The mouse does not work until I have turned off the "Emulate 3 buttons" for the second time. During the installation. The setup never prompts me for the type of monitor that I have. I must run setup and select my monitor "Dell Ultrascan 21fs" in order for the image to be correctly centered on the screen. Without specifing my monitor type the frequencies of the monitor are incorrect and therefore the image is badly uncentered. Please feel free to contact me if you need any clarification or further information at scotthendrickson Thank you for your time. -- Scott Hendrickson
These are all known issues which we are addressing. The "not starting in X" problem is actually fixed in the latest boot images and updates disk (the ones you refer to in the posting.)
Issues are resolved in the latest cut of the installer available in beta.