Karanbir Singh wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I did find this out in another message here and they are right. This
is a missing piece (one of many!) in the text install.
One bit of info that needs clearing up here, did you start a text
install by yourself or did the system fallback to text mode ? If the
installer drops down to using only Text mode, there will be a reason
mentioned in the anaconda log file - look there.
If the installer makes an assumption that it cant run the GUI mode in
a reasonable fashion, then it does the safest thing, and sets the
machine to boot into text mode post-install.
The installer assumed that it could not run the GUI mode as it cam up
with 232Mb memory (24Mb used by video card).
And I know that it would come up in 'init 3 mode', it was just that I
was SURE that I selected the GNOME package from the customize package
installation dialog, and it was not on my system after the install. I
had do grab it separately via yum groupinstall.
Howover, I hosed up somehow later with yumex doing updates, and watched
everything being removed! So I had to redo the install.
This time I paid careful attention to the package install dialog, and
GNOME environment was installed. All I had to do was change inittab to
start at 5 instead of 3.
So I don't know. I am unlikely to be doing another Centos 5 install on
a system with less than 256Mb of usable ram...
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