On 04/28/2019 12:53 AM, Doug wrote:
On 04/27/2019 09:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 Doug wrote:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting.
You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works.
I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the machine that I described, which has the 250GB SSD on it. I used the provided md5sum to make sure what I was burning was correct. I then burned the disk with k3B verify, for both the md5sum and the actual download file, and burned the DVD with "verify" which succeded. I started to install the DVD at 10:45 PM on Saturday, and it is now 12:45 AM Sunday Morning. A long incremented list of large numbers followed by the words,
"EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled"
has been running ever since. I expect it will still be running in the morning when I get up, and after church, when I get home at 1:15PM.
Is it possible to
1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which Centos will run?
1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space?
2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE system on the computer which I have described, and and if so, from whom?
--doug
So now it is 14 hours later, and it is still spitting out these numbers, once a minute or so. At the bottom of this interminable list, instead of the former quote, it now says: "Use of these features in this kernel is at your own risk." I'd really like to try this system, but it defies me.
doug