The download was fast because it is a small file.
The installation process was very clean and simple and basically prompted for the root setup.
In my case it was important to hit the Network button to set the automatic DHCPCD thing because the internet connection would not work otherwise.
And that was about it - super fast and super clean... time to reboot.
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And there I was with a CLI login. I am used to that from Arch and you really do not need a DE for a server, but I want to test this as a desktop distro so I need to install a DE. I logged in as root (remember we did not create a user?) and ran an update
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yum update
No problem.
Centos uses good ol' Gnome2 as a standard desktop so this command will fix the entire enchilada:
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yum groupinstall basic-desktop desktop-platform x11 fonts
Next you need to edit your /etc/inittab and change the line
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id:3:initdefault:
to
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id:5:initdefault:
And that is about it - time to reboot again...
And everything starts like it should and the systems automatically prompts me to set up a regular user - nice!
So I set myself up and voila I am running RedHat with Gnome!
Now the gnome here is very basic and I have a hard time setting the resolution bigger that 1024x768 but I will get around to it.
I want to use sudo so I instal it:
su
password
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yum install sudo
After that the good old:
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EDITOR=nano visudo
So far so good..
The first strange thing I discovered in Centos is that there is no gksu! This is bad for the autorun.sh in Vboxadditions because the skript uses gksu.
That explains why it is hard to set the resolution/make vboxadditions work!