[CentOS] Installing Centos 5.5 64 bit issues

Mon Dec 13 17:24:38 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> benedict dcunha wrote:
>>>
>>> We have a new SUN BLADE X6270 SERVER MODULES and i am trying to install
>>> centos 5.5 64 bit . the installations starts fine but when it reaches
>>> the point inialthe X server it says initialization done but then gives a
>>> fatal error and stops
>>>
>>> Appreciate if some one could help me and advice
>>>
>> Obviously, it's having trouble identifying the card. Edit /etc/inittab
>> so that you start up in runlevel 3 instead of 5. Besides, it's a server,
>> why does it need to be running X?
>
> Because when you're doing a typical server install, the installation
> process uses X (unless you've customized the install to default to
> text mode, in which case you already know that and are just trolling).

Neither. I'll ignore the fact that I, and the folks I work with, *always*
use linux text (though pxeboot is starting up), and point out that once
you've run the installation, you usually have more stuff to do: update
everything from install source to current, dhcp, mail, etc.

         mark