Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else had an issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
If I choose Desktop - Gnome in the distribution selection, after the "transferring image to hard disk" message it waits a very long time than dies with an error about not being able to run the transaction due to the following error:
Press enter to reboot.
I am able to install (in text mode) the 'server' option.
But I would really like to install the desktop environment on my laptop.
Thank you in advance.
-Drew
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:48 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone elsehad an issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
If I choose Desktop – Gnome in the distribution selection, after the “transferring image to hard disk” message it waits a very long time than dies with an error about not being able to run the transaction due to the following error:
Press enter to reboot.
I am able to install (in text mode) the ‘server’ option.
But I would really like to install the desktop environment on my laptop.
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "Graphical Internet" "GNOME Desktop Environment" "Office/Productivity"
(all on one line ... With the quotes as used)
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "Graphical Internet" "GNOME Desktop Environment" "Office/Productivity"
(all on one line ... With the quotes as used)
Oh, right.. I know I can do it that way.
I just didn’t know if/why the installer doesn’t appear to work? I will assume this is a known issue than?
-Drew
Drew Weaver spake the following on 4/16/2007 12:01 PM:
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "Graphical Internet" "GNOME Desktop Environment" "Office/Productivity"
(all on one line ... With the quotes as used)
Oh, right.. I know I can do it that way.
I just didn’t know if/why the installer doesn’t appear to work? I will assume this is a known issue than?
-Drew
I am trying one right now in vmware. It seems to be progressing much farther than you stated. May be a problem with your laptop. Do you have enough memory? Although it is progressing great in 256 megs in the vm. It is now about 25% finished.
Hm, not sure. It has 2 GB of RAM.
It’s the ole Dell Inspiron 6400..
-Drew
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:10 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 - Gnome
Drew Weaver spake the following on 4/16/2007 12:01 PM:
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "Graphical Internet" "GNOME Desktop Environment" "Office/Productivity"
(all on one line ... With the quotes as used)
Oh, right.. I know I can do it that way.
I just didn’t know if/why the installer doesn’t appear to work? I will assume this is a known issue than?
-Drew
I am trying one right now in vmware. It seems to be progressing much farther than you stated. May be a problem with your laptop. Do you have enough memory? Although it is progressing great in 256 megs in the vm. It is now about 25% finished.
Drew Weaver spake the following on 4/16/2007 12:20 PM:
Hm, not sure. It has 2 GB of RAM.
It’s the ole Dell Inspiron 6400..
Definitely not lack of ram. My vmware test with the gnome desktop and 256 megs ram went great, so it has to be a hardware interaction with your lappy.
Built in intel 950
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Richard Potter Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 - Gnome
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:20:52PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
Hm, not sure. It has 2 GB of RAM.
It???s the ole Dell Inspiron 6400..
What Video card? Not ati by chance, or specifically the X1400?
Cheers!
I think the issue is that the partition I reserved for Linux wasn't large enough.
Although that error message could've been a little more clear.
Thanks, -Drew
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 6:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 - Gnome
Built in intel 950
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Richard Potter Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 - Gnome
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:20:52PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
Hm, not sure. It has 2 GB of RAM.
It???s the ole Dell Inspiron 6400..
What Video card? Not ati by chance, or specifically the X1400?
Cheers!
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:58 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
I think the issue is that the partition I reserved for Linux wasn't large enough.
Although that error message could've been a little more clear.
Thanks, -Drew
That is a bug ... the installer does not handle lack of hard drive size correctly at all. It dies in the middle of installs and other problems and is very cryptic in its output.
We are troubleshooting that issue.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 6:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 - Gnome
Built in intel 950
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Richard Potter Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 - Gnome
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:20:52PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
Hm, not sure. It has 2 GB of RAM.
It???s the ole Dell Inspiron 6400..
What Video card? Not ati by chance, or specifically the X1400?
Cheers!
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Drew Weaver wrote:
Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else hadan issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
I am able to install (in text mode) the 'server' option.
But I would really like to install the desktop environment on my laptop.
now that it is installed, run:
yum grouplist to see what is available as a group, and
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" will finish the install
-- Russ Herrold
Yes, I was aware of the manual means to install it, I just wanted to be sure that the correct people were aware that (at least the dvd) installer is broken.
-Drew
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of R P Herrold Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Gnome
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Drew Weaver wrote:
Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else
had
an issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
I am able to install (in text mode) the 'server' option.
But I would really like to install the desktop environment on my
laptop.
now that it is installed, run:
yum grouplist to see what is available as a group, and
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" will finish the install
-- Russ Herrold _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Drew Weaver wrote:
Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else hadan issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
If I choose Desktop – Gnome in the distribution selection, after the “transferring image to hard disk” message it waits a very long time than dies with an error about not being able to run the transaction due to the following error:
just as a matter of interest, how much RAM does that laptop have ?
- KB
2GB
Runs vista like a champ lol.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:16 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Gnome
Drew Weaver wrote:
Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else
had
an issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
If I choose Desktop - Gnome in the distribution selection, after the "transferring image to hard disk" message it waits a very long time
than
dies with an error about not being able to run the transaction due to the following error:
just as a matter of interest, how much RAM does that laptop have ?
- KB
Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else had anissue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook.
Hmm, this is an odd issue you seem to have. The centos5 install from DVD and net install went flawlessly on my dell inspiron 9300. With centos5, it's completely usable to the point that suspend/sleep works now. The only things I had to install separately were the nvidia proprietary drivers, and the intel ipw2200 firmware, both of which are in the RPMForge repository.
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