[CentOS] Strange Question regarding CentOS 5 install

[John Summerfield]

Lonny Selinger wrote:
> Ok so the install has been seamless on a few machines and I decided to try it
> on my laptop (a Dell D620). I had everything working great and kicked it
> around a bit and then figured, if I'm going to keep this on my laptop I'll
> need to reformat everything, enable some encrypted filesystems etc ... not a
> big deal ... kind of
> 
> Here's the problem, the laptop has a resolution of 1440x900 and X wont start
> up on it therefore, I do not get the graphical installer ... not a big deal if
> you don't want to customize your volume groups and logical volumes, but I
> would like to.
> 
> So far I've tested graphical installers from Mandriva and Knoppix and they
> will actually load a graphical installer but CentOS 5 does not. Does anyone
> know if there is a way for me to get the GUI installer so I can monkey with
> VG's? currently these options aren't available in the curses menu set up.
> 
> 
> And yes I know I could just as easily create regular etx3 filesystems with no
> LVM2 stuff (no I'm not going to be adding more drives any time soon to my
> laptop) but it would be nice to know it's possible. I was using LVM2 on my
> last laptop and it was handy having the ability to grow and shrink some
> filesystems.

This works, I think:
Attach to LAN.
On your desktop, in konsole:
xhost +
Boot laptop, using "DISPLAY=laptop:0" as a boot option, along with ks= 
and whatever else takes your fancy.

You should also be able to do a VNC install. RTFM.



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John

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