On 11/21/2012 06:17 PM, [email protected] 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 ½ 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
