On 04/28/2019 12:53 AM, Doug wrote: > > On 04/27/2019 09:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 >> Doug wrote: >>> I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to >>> install, >>> but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and >>> nothing I do will get it into a kde mode. >> Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that >> way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting. >> >> You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works. >> > I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the > machine that I described, which has the 250GB SSD on it. > I used the provided md5sum to make sure what I was burning was > correct. I then burned the disk with k3B verify, for both the > md5sum and the actual download file, and burned the DVD with "verify" > which succeded. I started to install the DVD at 10:45 PM > on Saturday, and it is now 12:45 AM Sunday Morning. A long incremented > list of large numbers followed by the words, > > "EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled" > > has been running ever since. I expect it will still be running in the > morning when I get up, and after church, when I get home at 1:15PM. > > *********************************** > > Is it possible to > > 1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which > Centos will run? > > 1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space? > > 2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE > system on the computer which I have described, and > and if so, from whom? > > --doug > > So now it is 14 hours later, and it is still spitting out these numbers, once a minute or so. At the bottom of this interminable list, instead of the former quote, it now says: "Use of these features in this kernel is at your own risk." I'd really like to try this system, but it defies me. doug