[CentOS] Installing Centos 5.5 64 bit issues

Brian Mathis brian.mathis at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 17:10:42 UTC 2010


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> benedict dcunha wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We have a new SUN BLADE X6270 SERVER MODULES and i am trying to install
>> centos 5.5 64 bit . the installations starts fine but when it reaches the
>> point inialthe X server it says initialization done but then gives a fatal
>> error and stops
>>
>> Appreciate if some one could help me and advice
>>
> Obviously, it's having trouble identifying the card. Edit /etc/inittab so
> that you start up in runlevel 3 instead of 5. Besides, it's a server, why
> does it need to be running X?
>
>         mark
>

Because when you're doing a typical server install, the installation
process uses X (unless you've customized the install to default to
text mode, in which case you already know that and are just trolling).



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