Found the problem... Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have just dropped Centos 5 on a laptop with only 256M memory. > Problem was 24M is shared with the video card so the installer insisted > on text, not graphical install. > > I DID install gnome and specified it as my interface. But when I do an > init 5, I come up in X not Gnome. > > What do I have to change to fix this aberrant behaviour? There is a missing piece (one of many!) in the text install. Even if you select Gnome as your workstation WIndows environment, not all of Gnome gets in. You still have to do: yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" Then edit inittab. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list