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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list