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Hey Dan,
Nope. We don't care at all about X and there's nothing in the Virtualmin install that would tamper with your X configuration.
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I didn't think so, but had to ask. My impression of the CentOS install disk is that it does a good job of laying the footwork for the VMPro install, but that's about it. It may have to do with me using the Server_CD iso but then why ask if you're not going to install it :-(
Oh, yeah. Server CD doesn't enable X, by default. It starts in runlevel 3.
I believe you can just change it (assuming you did install X) by editing /etc/inittab and changing this line:
id:3:initdefault:
To this:
id:5:initdefault:
A reboot should bring up X (unless something is broken in the configuration).
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I gave that a whirl and on reboot got a complanint of something respawning too fast disabled and waiting 5 minutes
It's no biggy on this box and I'll have to experiment on a different clean one then.
Hey Joe,
I realized that the centos server cd may ask if you want to install the startx but doesn't really do it. I used the standard ISOs to install on another box and was able to install xserver and a desktop. THen I remembered why I didn't want the xserver in CentOS. Apparently it runs all the time as a shell (like windows) and you have to open up a window to get out into the system and that's not what I wanted either. I only wanted to bring up a GUI desktop when I needed it. :-(
I noticed that on my CentOS install, the server install CD (http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-x86...) only installs the bare minimum for Xserver.
I had to do:
yum groupinstall "X Window Server"
To get all of the X packages to allow X to run properly.
Steve
Dan - why not have the server start in runlevel 3 and then init 5 when you want to use the x server?
I'd installed the servercd iso and apparently it asks if want to install the client but doesn't install the xserver so when I went to level 5 it kept looping out on error. When I get time I'll try it again, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened. It worked fine when I used the 4 disk set. Operator error ;-)
That's what I was saying - Install regular version then edit conf files to start in runlevel 3. Then just whenever you want to bring up x server just init 5...