MHR wrote: > I just used a Live CD for the first time today, in part to show what > CentOS can do for a co-worker who is looking at using it at work and > home, but I got the strangest result. > > We booted the CD and let the centos user log in. It took a really > long time to load the desktop and there were no panels, so the only > things we could do were browse the computer, CD, home, file system, > keyboard (sort of) and pretty much nothing else. <alt><f2> and > <alt><f1> did nothing, either - no menu, no input windows - nada. > > Is that normal? If not, what did I/we overlook? I was expecting a > lot more, and from looking around the wiki, there should have been, > but I couldn't find a good reference for what the Live CD is supposed > to be able to do or let a user do. Both live CDs (CentOS-4 and CentOS-5) boot to fully usable desktops. It sounds like there are hardware issues with the machine involved and the livecd booted. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080604/8dcc6b98/attachment-0004.sig>