CentOS 4.5 question

Doug Holtz

Hello Group;
I hope this forum is a good place to ask.
I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take the
drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop.
How do I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I
seem to be able to do is upgrade the system, which I did to 4.5. My
xorg.conf file is listing the wrong hardware; kudzu will not find any new
hardware.
Help with some direction please.
Thanks
doug

General Schvantzkopf

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:16:57 -0600, Doug Holtz wrote:

> Hello Group;
> I hope this forum is a good place to ask. I installed CentOS 4.4 server
> without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take the drive and put it in a
> different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do I install a GUI desktop
> off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I seem to be able to do is
> upgrade the system, which I did to 4.5. My xorg.conf file is listing
> the wrong hardware; kudzu will not find any new hardware.
> Help with some direction please.
> Thanks
> doug

Install yumex,
yum -y install yumex

Then ssh in from another system that has X running on it at start yumex.
Yumex will allow you to install everything you need. If 4.5 has pirut you
could use that also.

dold@26.usenet.us.com

Doug Holtz <dougholtz***********> wrote:
> I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take
> the drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do
> I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I

Do you have a GNOME or KDE desktop rpm installed?
I would be inclined to try and install
gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm from disc 2 and see what
prerequisites it asks for, or maybe I misunderstand your question.

--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

Bruce Coryell

dold@26.usenet.us.com wrote:
> Doug Holtz <dougholtz***********> wrote:
>
>>I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take
>>the drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do
>>I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I
>
>
> Do you have a GNOME or KDE desktop rpm installed?
> I would be inclined to try and install
> gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm from disc 2 and see what
> prerequisites it asks for, or maybe I misunderstand your question.
>
CentOS 5.1 is out now.

Doug Holtz

<dold@26.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:fjka0j$vct$1@blue.rahul.net...
> Doug Holtz <dougholtz***********> wrote:
>> I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take
>> the drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do
>> I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I
>
> Do you have a GNOME or KDE desktop rpm installed?
> I would be inclined to try and install
> gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm from disc 2 and see what
> prerequisites it asks for, or maybe I misunderstand your question.
>
> --
> Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

Clarence;
Thanks for the reply.
I have both KDE and Gnome files sitting on the server's directories. I
don't think either is installed, as that was not I originally wanted. Now I
want to re-deploy the hard drive without re-installing. I only have the (1)
CD - server only version - so no disk 2 is available.
Doug

Doug Holtz

"General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf***********> wrote in message
news:zuCdnfrYsfJNBMHanZ2dnUVZ_sHinZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:16:57 -0600, Doug Holtz wrote:
>
>> Hello Group;
>> I hope this forum is a good place to ask. I installed CentOS 4.4 server
>> without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take the drive and put it in a
>> different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do I install a GUI desktop
>> off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I seem to be able to do is
>> upgrade the system, which I did to 4.5. My xorg.conf file is listing
>> the wrong hardware; kudzu will not find any new hardware.
>> Help with some direction please.
>> Thanks
>> doug
>
> Install yumex,
> yum -y install yumex
>
> Then ssh in from another system that has X running on it at start yumex.
> Yumex will allow you to install everything you need. If 4.5 has pirut you
> could use that also.

General;
I've seen you out here a long time. Thanks for the reply. I've been
playing with Linux since slackware in 1997, but seem stymied.
I'll try this method ... soon. I'd have to use another CentOS server to ssh
in to use Yumex, and all I have are black screen non-GUI machines. I don't
think I can accomplish what you want me to do, unless of course I can use a
Windows XP machine and putty or pscp in dos mode.
Doug

dold@26.usenet.us.com

Doug Holtz <dougholtz***********> wrote:
> I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take
> the drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do
> I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I

Do you have a GNOME or KDE desktop rpm installed?
I would be inclined to try and install
gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm from disc 2 and see what
prerequisites it asks for, or maybe I misunderstand your question.

--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

Bruce Coryell

dold@26.usenet.us.com wrote:
> Doug Holtz <dougholtz***********> wrote:
>
>>I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take
>>the drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do
>>I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I
>
>
> Do you have a GNOME or KDE desktop rpm installed?
> I would be inclined to try and install
> gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm from disc 2 and see what
> prerequisites it asks for, or maybe I misunderstand your question.
>
CentOS 5.1 is out now.

Doug Holtz

<dold@26.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:fjka0j$vct$1@blue.rahul.net...
> Doug Holtz <dougholtz***********> wrote:
>> I installed CentOS 4.4 server without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take
>> the drive and put it in a different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do
>> I install a GUI desktop off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I
>
> Do you have a GNOME or KDE desktop rpm installed?
> I would be inclined to try and install
> gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm from disc 2 and see what
> prerequisites it asks for, or maybe I misunderstand your question.
>
> --
> Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

Clarence;
Thanks for the reply.
I have both KDE and Gnome files sitting on the server's directories. I
don't think either is installed, as that was not I originally wanted. Now I
want to re-deploy the hard drive without re-installing. I only have the (1)
CD - server only version - so no disk 2 is available.
Doug

Doug Holtz

"General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf***********> wrote in message
news:zuCdnfrYsfJNBMHanZ2dnUVZ_sHinZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:16:57 -0600, Doug Holtz wrote:
>
>> Hello Group;
>> I hope this forum is a good place to ask. I installed CentOS 4.4 server
>> without a GUI on a pc. I now want to take the drive and put it in a
>> different pc and make it a GUI desktop. How do I install a GUI desktop
>> off the Internet using yum or up2date? All I seem to be able to do is
>> upgrade the system, which I did to 4.5. My xorg.conf file is listing
>> the wrong hardware; kudzu will not find any new hardware.
>> Help with some direction please.
>> Thanks
>> doug
>
> Install yumex,
> yum -y install yumex
>
> Then ssh in from another system that has X running on it at start yumex.
> Yumex will allow you to install everything you need. If 4.5 has pirut you
> could use that also.

General;
I've seen you out here a long time. Thanks for the reply. I've been
playing with Linux since slackware in 1997, but seem stymied.
I'll try this method ... soon. I'd have to use another CentOS server to ssh
in to use Yumex, and all I have are black screen non-GUI machines. I don't
think I can accomplish what you want me to do, unless of course I can use a
Windows XP machine and putty or pscp in dos mode.
Doug