[CentOS] Re: Laptop non-graphic install init 5 to X not Gnome

[Robert Moskowitz]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 5/2/2007 8:11 PM:
>   
>> Well I got my 1st notebook install done.
>>
>> Since the video card takes 24Mb memory, installer would not go graphical
>> (256-24=232).  But I can now boot into character mode.
>>
>> an init 5 brings up X, but I am in the X environment, and I want to be
>> in Gnome.
>>
>> What file am I to edit and what changes do I make?
>>
>> thanks.
>>     
> Did you install Gnome when you set up the lapttop?
> You might only need yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
Even after you do that, you still have to change inittab.

Even when I 'got it right the first time', inittab is still set to 
non-graphical.

A text install equates to a text bootup.