> 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. Thanks ... I was hoping for a simpler solution rather than a cludge type but if nothing else surfaces I'll give it a shot. -- Lonny -- "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work ON it."