F12 Beta install issue

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 07:09 +0100, toddbailey wrote:
> So I have a pII 400 mhx w/ 256m memory
> 
> Because it's a dinosaur, installing beta not a problem, for testing.
> 
> it complained that it could do a graphical install.
> And with out this tool I may not be able to configure networking properly
> 
> Assistance is requested to force the install the gnome environment.
> 
> suggestions--

You can use system-config-network to configure the network, then do:

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

to install GNOME. As Aioanei says, GNOME may be slow on a 256MB RAM
system, you may want to try:

yum groupinstall "LXDE"

for something that'll be a bit lighter and faster.

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