"Loading" Xwindows from the command line

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Oct 26 03:34:15 UTC 2007


Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> FWIW....
>>
>> Booting to init 3 and going a
>>
>> yum groupupdate "X Window System"
>>
>> may get you up and operational.
> 
> If you use NetworkManager you don't get the network brought up until
> you log into the GUI, do you?  Without a network connection, yum is a
> little less useful.  It just means that in addition to getting X
> working, John may need to futz around with his network to bring it up.

It seems he doesn't have any network issues.  I think it is just my penchant
for running this sort of stuff from level 3.




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