I believe I have the exact answer to "Centos 6 Server has no GUI" but
I don't see how to attach my answer to that thread.
I am running in Virtual Box on a Windows machine. When I changed my memory
available from ? Gb to 1 Gb , and my video memory to 24Mb, my installation
script went from an interface reminiscent of MS-DOS in the 80's to a nice
GUI installation, and my number of packages installed went from 200 and some to
1400 and some.
Apparently, the installation identifies what your box is capable of, and
installs only what's appropriate. And doesn't tell you!
Regards, Rick
richard.hedin at nokia.com wrote:> I believe I have the exact answer to "Centos 6 Server has no GUI" but I > don't see how to attach my answer to that thread. > > I am running in Virtual Box on a Windows machine. When I changed my > memory available from ? Gb to 1 Gb , and my video memory to 24Mb, my > installation script went from an interface reminiscent of MS-DOS in the > 80's to a nice GUI installation, and my number of packages installed went > from 200 and some to 1400 and some."Reminiscent of MS-DOS"? You mean, that DOS resembled any version of *nix? You mean you *don't* use command line, a *lot*, on servers? To quote a friend, "Your mother dresses you funny, and you need a mouse to delete files!". mark "the command line is your friend"
On 11/21/2012 06:17 PM, richard.hedin at nokia.com wrote:> I believe I have the exact answer to "Centos 6 Server has no GUI" but I don't see how to attach my answer to that thread. > > I am running in Virtual Box on a Windows machine. When I changed my memory available from ? Gb to 1 Gb , and my video memory to 24Mb, my installation script went from an interface reminiscent of MS-DOS in the 80's to a nice GUI installation, and my number of packages installed went from 200 and some to 1400 and some. > > Apparently, the installation identifies what your box is capable of, and installs only what's appropriate. And doesn't tell you! >the text installer in CentOS-6 will default to a minimal install set and does not give you any package selection options - however, with the gUI installer you should get ( and I am sure you did ) a package selection screen that you most likely just clicked through without looking at the package sets already selected. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc