On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Varun Arora <futuregeni...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey Anna, > > Thanks for that. Yes, I did the yum groupinstall all of them. > Unfortunately, GNOME fails to log me in as a root or just another user. So I > reverted back to command-line. I don't know why that instability. Maybe its > specific to me. > > MySQL works well after the install. (It was just funny to have Moodle > pre-installed without MySQL!) > > Varun > Moodle runs on PostGreSQL. I'd also suggest using XS 0.6D2, where bulk of the issues have been fixed. http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > > > 2009/7/22 Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Varun Arora <futuregeni...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc. >>> on installation of XS 5.2. Unfortunately, after installation I tried to run >>> MySQL and it did not run. It was not installed. X Windows did not seem to >>> installed. I had checked both these during installation. I know GUI is not >>> is not important for most network admins, but I just wanted to know why the >>> stable installation disc does not install them even though I checked them. >> >> >> I'm not on the dev team, but I've installed MySQL and X Windows on an XS. >> Those packages are not on the XS install media, so it doesn't matter if you >> check them during the install process. >> >> >>> I did manage to download the X packages later using Yum, but that led to >>> serious instability such as failure to login from GNOME and bad network >>> connectivity. Had to freshly install. >> >> >> Did you do yum groupinstall? You can see which groups are available with >> yum grouplist. For example, you can do: >> >> yum groupinstall X Window System >> yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop Environment >> yum groupinstall MySQL Database >> >> Anna Schoolfield >> Birmingham >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > >
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