You are 100% correct. I am sorry about that.
I did a brand new fresh install. This is my first time. I tried to install Core first, but realized that Scale is more up my alley.
Motherboard is an ASUS P6X58D Premium
running an Intel i7 2.66Ghz
44GB Ram
240GB Inland Professional SSD
It booted, shows me the web user interface IP, as both ipv4 and ipv6 I believe.
When I go to the url, either http or https, it just hangs. I also can't ping the ip in the command shell.