On 11/26/2012 04:54 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 11/25/2012 11:46 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 11/26/2012 04:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I did the minimal install on my ee701. At least the first attempt. >>> >>> I set my swap at 768Mb, and left /boot at 500Mb (probably could shrink >>> this next time). This left 2.7Gb for / >>> >>> That swap will be too small for hibernate.... >>> >>> So a minimal install with also selecting Gnome (and deselecting a few >>> things like snapwell or whatever it is called) resulting in only 737Mb >>> used in /! Now I have a local repo, so I was able to select my local >>> update repo to eliminate the update step. >>> >>> So when the computer boots, I come up in multiuser, not graphical and it >>> did not prompt me to create a non-root user and all those other first >>> time boot options of a regular install. Sooo... >>> >>> How do I start gnome so I can use its tools for things like creating my >>> userID? >>> Whatelse do I need to set from the 1st time boot? >>> How do I change the runtime to grahical with no /etc/inittab? I looked >>> at what inittab has in it now and tried the ln command: >>> >>> ln -s /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target >>> /etc/systemd/system/default.target >>> >>> But of course this fails as there already is the symbolic link to >>> multi-user. >>> >>> It was quite a pain getting to this point as the ee701 has a narrow >>> screen and you cannont move the screens in install to see what is off >>> the bottom of the screen. You just have to guess.... >> Not that it's much use now but for future reference, there is an option >> to earmark first boot for install at the Optional Installs stage. > > But you have to see that, and it is at the bottom of the screen, so I > would have have notes on what <alt> key to activate it. It would be > nice to find some screenshots of all the f17 install pages.... > > Oh, and what do I install to get semanage? I'm afraid I can't help you with that one. It's a pretty difficult one to Google for I should imagine too. I'll be setting a few Fedora 17 VMs up later in the week & can look then for you if you like but other than that, I can't offer more. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
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