"Loading" Xwindows from the command line

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Fri Oct 26 03:08:47 UTC 2007


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.

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