on Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Michael Schumacher wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Michael Schumacher <michael.schumacher at pamas.de> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI > > Dear Giles, > > On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: > >>> So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup >>> Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but >>> v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI > >> perhaps:: >> yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" > > There is no "GNOME Desktop Environment" group. Check with yum > grouplist and you will see. And even installing "KDE Desktop" won't > help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't > have runlevels any more, this means a little bit more looking into > details is required. > How can Linux _not_ have run levels. I thought that was a > central part of the design of Linux? Um, who says 6 doesn't have runlevels? I haven't personally looked at C6, but upstream EL6 -does- have runlevels just as previous versions: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) Josh