Virtualbox -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 12/20/15 19:07, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> >What am I missing?
> I don't have CentOS or SL at the moment.  But, since Centos is based on RedHat and the
> packages are probably pretty much the same as fedora it sounds like you didn't choose a
> desktop environment at install.
>
> /usr/bin/startx probably is from the same package as on fedora which is xorg-x11-xinit.
>
> So, I would do ...
>
> dnf whatprovides /usr/bin/startx    (or the yum equivalent if that is what CentOS uses)
>
> and then make sure it is installed.
.

I was not able to do dnf/yum anything 
because Centos 7.2 could not fine my 
ethernet port.

Someone off-list suggested I look at 
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interfacename>, 
it should be ONBOOT=yes." The default in 
everything Centos that I had downloaded 
recently was ONBOOT=no! Once that was 
fixed I was able to collect the needed 
files to make a usable system.

The original DVD download was 4+ GB but 
was missing things like the GNOME 
Desktop which I thought odd, I expected 
it to at least provide a typical basic 
system?

I have it working now with xfce, still a 
project under work but I have gained a 
lot of familiarity with virtualbox as a 
result, my objective in this exercise, 
so it's not a loss.

Thanks,

Bob

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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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