[CentOS] backup server..

Thu Sep 14 14:14:09 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 20:02 -0700, dnk wrote:
> Sebastien Tremblay wrote:
> > (2.) I've got no physical access to the box, and the box has obviously
> > no video or sound. Considering this, would it possible to remotely
> > administer the box using VNC in a GUI environment? - I figured 2Ghz
> > could probably handle me starting x sometimes...! So if possible.. How
> > would I do it? I`m assuming there are no `yum install x`....
> Well to answer this point, there is yum's "group install" feature.

Wouldn't one of the text based browsers suffice? Lynx (still used for
Samba?) or links or ...?

> 
> You can see the available groups and their status with:
> 
> 
> # yum grouplist | less
> 
> And to install X it would be something like:
> 
> # yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> 
> done deal.
> 
> 
> d
> <snip sig stuff>

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Bill