headless or desktop?

[wobbly]

atm iam running headless but iam thinking of going with a desktop .i think it would be easier for adding drives and so on any thoughts .

[ghstryder]

atm iam running headless but iam thinking of going with a desktop .i think it would be easier for adding drives and so on any thoughts .

You don't have to boot to X or to a desktop manager. You can boot to a prompt in runlevel 3, and call X when/if necessary.

[wobbly]

a link on how to do this would be great thank you
ps i would look for myself but i have no idea what iam looking for

[ghstryder]

Sorry, I didn't want to clutter things up unless there was an interest.

First, I would at least peek here: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora- ... mmendation

This link is on that page, but I will put it here to keep it simple: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Runlevel

To edit, become root, and type: nano /etc/inittab and press enter
Make the change to runlevel 3 as stated in the wiki.
Type ctrl x, you will see a prompt with the file name at the bottom, just type y and hit enter.

That is it, your HDA will boot to runlevel 3. If you need the desktop, log in as a user and type startx.

All of this assumes you have either done the full install, or installed gnome, of course. If you have done that, you can use gedit to do the editing. Sooner or later, you might find yourself needing to use nano - won't hurt to give it a try now, when you are not pressured by having a broken system.

To go one step further, you can get rid of the gui boot screen by editing (as root) /etc/default/grub and removing the "rhgb" entry from the boot line. If you do that, you will boot to a prompt, just like the express/headless install. If you are curious, you can see a more verbose boot sequence by removing "quiet" from the boot line as well.

[wobbly]

iam loged in as root and type

yum -y groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
and get
no packages available
nothing to do

yum -y install Xorg

no packages available
nothing to do

now what ?

[majide]

Try this command:

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

[wobbly]

still no luck

[wobbly]

can i output to a file so you can see what iam doing wrong

[wobbly]

ok think it might be where yum is trying to find the files is there a way i can tell yum where to get the files from

[majide]

What output gives yum back, when you execute the command?

If you are using Putty or something like that. You can copy marked text with ctrl+shift+c

Only for the record: Linux is lower/upper case sensitive.