Re: Starting gnome after text-based install



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.


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