DAQ6 CentOS7 install

enp4s0f0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

       inet 134.50.3.153  netmask 255.255.255.128  broadcast 134.50.3.255
       inet6 fe80::82c1:6eff:fe21:396  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
       ether 80:c1:6e:21:03:96  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
       RX packets 3699  bytes 4760308 (4.5 MiB)

Setup Disk array

The SAS hard drives are not recognized when the computer is first taken out of the box

You need to enter the Configuration Menu from the BIOS by hitting Ctrl-S. You get to this point during the boot process by hitting any key after the computer has done a self diagnostic.

The Startup Splash screen takes a while to come up and looks like this

After you see the above splash scree and hit any key you will see the screen go dark and then asked to hit Ctrl-s

Below is the configuration menu you will see, select the Create Logical Drive menu item

Below is the configuration chosen to read a RAID disk using the four drives in a RAID 10 (1+0) configuration

You then return to the configuration menu and select "Select Boot Volume" to see the screen below

After the above is setup, the standard installation procedure from a Live DVD can be used to install CentOS 7

Instal Xfce

yum install epel-release

yum --enablerep=epel -y groups install "Xfce"

then setup the graphical target

systemctl isolate graphical.target

to keep it as the default

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
rm '/etc/systemd/system/default.target'
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target' '/etc/systemd/system/default.target

the command below will check which GUI is used

ls -l /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service

Host_Computer_Configuration#DAQ6_configuration