Some advise please... Re: "Loading" Xwindows from the command line

[John Bradley]

Hi All,

Looking for some help here....   Anyone.....  PLEASE .....

Cheers
John.


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:27:58 +1000, John Bradley <bradleyjaj at iinet.net.au>  
wrote:

> Taking another aproach...
>
> I've loaded LINUX on to another hard drive hoping to be able to access  
> the data on the drive without xwindows.  Now find that although the  
> various partitions are present, I don't have the necessary access to  
> mount them - even as root.
>
> Any suggestions?  Please let me have them.
>
> Cheers
> John.
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:34:15 +1000, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>