Karanbir Singh wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I did find this out in another message here and they are right. This >> is a missing piece (one of many!) in the text install. >> > > One bit of info that needs clearing up here, did you start a text > install by yourself or did the system fallback to text mode ? If the > installer drops down to using only Text mode, there will be a reason > mentioned in the anaconda log file - look there. > > If the installer makes an assumption that it cant run the GUI mode in > a reasonable fashion, then it does the safest thing, and sets the > machine to boot into text mode post-install. The installer assumed that it could not run the GUI mode as it cam up with 232Mb memory (24Mb used by video card). And I know that it would come up in 'init 3 mode', it was just that I was SURE that I selected the GNOME package from the customize package installation dialog, and it was not on my system after the install. I had do grab it separately via yum groupinstall. Howover, I hosed up somehow later with yumex doing updates, and watched everything being removed! So I had to redo the install. This time I paid careful attention to the package install dialog, and GNOME environment was installed. All I had to do was change inittab to start at 5 instead of 3. So I don't know. I am unlikely to be doing another Centos 5 install on a system with less than 256Mb of usable ram...