Posts Tagged ‘centos5

Sometimes when I install CentOS it does not start up in “graphical mode” – that is it starts up directly at the command prompt rather than automatically starting up X Windows. You can configure CentOS to start up in whatever mode you want including graphical mode by editing the file /etc/inittab. To change the startup [...]

Install software needed by VMware Tools 1. Install packages to build the kernel modules yum install gcc kernel-devel 2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers uname -r # running kernel rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers 3. If the two versions do not match, run yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel reboot 4. [...]


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