Need help with minimal install on ee701

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/25/2012 11:46 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 04:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I did the minimal install on my ee701.  At least the first attempt.
>>
>> I set my swap at 768Mb, and left /boot at 500Mb (probably could shrink
>> this next time).  This left 2.7Gb for /
>>
>> That swap will be too small for hibernate....
>>
>> So a minimal install with also selecting Gnome (and deselecting a few
>> things like snapwell or whatever it is called) resulting in only 737Mb
>> used in /!  Now I have a local repo, so I was able to select my local
>> update repo to eliminate the update step.
>>
>> So when the computer boots, I come up in multiuser, not graphical and it
>> did not prompt me to create a non-root user and all those other first
>> time boot options of a regular install.  Sooo...
>>
>> How do I start gnome so I can use its tools for things like creating my
>> userID?
>> Whatelse do I need to set from the 1st time boot?
>> How do I change the runtime to grahical with no /etc/inittab?  I looked
>> at what inittab has in it now and tried the ln command:
>>
>> ln -s /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target
>> /etc/systemd/system/default.target
>>
>> But of course this fails as there already is the symbolic link to
>> multi-user.
>>
>> It was quite a pain getting to this point as the ee701 has a narrow
>> screen and you cannont move the screens in install to see what is off
>> the bottom of the screen.  You just have to guess....
> Not that it's much use now but for future reference, there is an option
> to earmark first boot for install at the Optional Installs stage.

But you have to see that, and it is at the bottom of the screen, so I 
would have have notes on what <alt> key to activate it.  It would be 
nice to find some screenshots of all the f17 install pages....

Oh, and what do I install to get semanage?