Re: CentOS 4.5 question


"General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:09:29 -0600, Doug Holtz wrote:

"General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:56:32 -0600, General Schvantzkopf wrote:

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:16:57 -0600, Doug Holtz wrote:

Hello Group;
I hope this forum is a good place to ask. I installed CentOS 4.4
server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take the drive and put
it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do I install a
GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I seem to be
able to do is upgrade the system, which I did to 4.5. My xorg.conf
file is listing the wrong hardware; kudzu will not find any new
hardware. Help with some direction please.
Thanks
doug

I have another suggestion for you, Webmin. Webmin has a yum front end
under system/servers. It's not as good as yumex or pirut but it looks
like it could do the job for you. Under the Install New Package
feature there is a browse YUM command. Search for gnome, it will bring
up a list of packages. If you install something like Evolution it
shold cause it to install all of Gnome because of the RPM
dependencies. Webmin is browser based so you can run it from one of
your Windows boxes. Get Webmin from http://www.webmin.com

Sorry the location is System/Software Packages not System/Servers.

Seeing I have no GUI, I don't understand how I can look at a list of
installable packages. I'll just download 5.1 and get on with it.

d

You can do it from your Windows box. Webmin is accessed though a browser,
all you do is goto http://machine_name:10000. You can install webmin from
the command line, just download it and use rpm to install it,

rpm -Uhv webmin-1.370-1.noarch.rpm

After you've done that you can do almost all of the administration tasks
from any machine on your network.


General;

Webmin works great on my 2 web servers (both older servers from DEC and HP).
The drive in question was originally a web server drive and now I want to
convert it over to a GUI desktop, not a web server.

Should I just re-install?

doug


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