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