Sorry for the lack of a response. I am packing up the house in preparation for a move. My entire network, except for my gateway and workstation is all that is still on line, and in 3 days they too go down.jmacdougca wrote: ↑2019/06/22 22:28:36YUS! gparted worked! one tip was the dropdown bar to select your various disks.
CentOS7 installed. But now I can only log into the cmd is this because I installed a minimal install? I wanted to keep this machine as a working computer.
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OK first glad you got things sort of running, but why in the world did you choose a minimal install? With 1TB+ SSD's and HDD's available you just bought you a whole lot of work to not have installed a GUI, be it GNOME, KDE, xfce, Cinnamon, etc. Unless you are comfortable with a simple CLI and typing commands, or unless you are using the machine as a single task server, you just bought yourself a bucketful of trouble. You say, "I wanted to keep this machine as a working computer." do you mean you want to use it as a workstation, server, or general purpose machine? All my machines, including the gateway, have a GUI. God forbid something knocks out the rest of the machines behind my gateway, I can still use it to do a whole lot of trouble shooting, and to also get online. IF you plan to actually use this machine on a routine basis, add a GUI of your choice.
OK how best to do this? There are two ways:
1) Do a entire re-install -- just think it gives you some practice so that the next time it is not so terrifying. That is probably the fastest and simplest way, only next time do NOT choose a MINIMAL INSTALL. The default GUI for Red Hat (RHEL and CentOS) is GNOME. I do not like GNOME and never have, and love KDE, but alas KDE is going away, and I have been experimenting with Cinnamon which is very KDE-like, but which is not nearly as slick as KDE.
2) Install it from the CLI which is a little more esoteric but not greatly so:
Step 1: Become root (su Enter it will ask you for your root Password Enter)
Step 2: Enter the following command: yum grouplist. You will then be presented a list of groups that you can now install, including GNOME Desktop, MATE Desktop, Cinnamon Desktop, KDE Plasma Workspaces, etc., etc., etc.
Step 3: Say you want to install KDE (or GNOME, et al) now issue the command yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" -- don't forget the " " marks at the beginning and end of the group/s you wish to install.
Step 4: It will come back and say something like: "Transaction Summary
===========================================================================================================
Install 1 Package (+14 Dependent packages)
Total download size: 2.2 M
Installed size: 4.1 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]:
Say y (yes) and it will then go out and find all the packages and dependent packages that are needed.
Step 5: Reboot your machine. When the machine reaches the point where you enter your user and password STOP! Depending upon on the type of desktop environment that you are faced with -- GNOME which will be recognizable by a white bar along the top of the page on the RIGHT side of the bar you will see various types of icons -- power, etc. the one one the LEFT side of that group of icons will -- if you click on it -- give you a drop down menu that lists all the various Desktop Environments that you have installed. Highlight and click on the one that says KDE Plasma Workspaces, which is the GUI group you just installed in our example.
If you have a KDE type desktop environment you will see a little gear which if I remember correctly is right below the Password box. Click on the Gear and it will give you a drop down list of the various desktops you currently have installed. As before select KDE Plasma Workspaces and hit enter. Now enter your user's Password
Step 6: Now hit Enter after you after you have given your user's Password and it will now come up in the KDE GUI.
BTW the yum grouplist and yum group install commands are good ones to remember. I have a number of times had to do a MINIMAL install because of some corrupted packages, and I then went in and MANUALLY added back in the groups that had been had been corrupted during the install phase.
Truthfully if I were you I would simply do an entire re-install as that is far easier, however if you struggled with the install and simply don't want to go back down that road again, then use the yum grouplist and yum groupinstall " ..." commands from the CLI.
I may not be back here for several weeks depending on how my move goes and problems I might encounter both before and after.
Best Fishes
P.S. One final tip: There is a nifty little utility that dates back to the days of DOS and was created and included in a suite of utilities called Norton Utilities, called Norton Commander (nc). Norton Commander was updated for use with *nix including Linux, called Midnight Commander (mc) -- it even uses many of the exact same hotkey combinations as nc. It uses ncurses and you can you a LOT with this nifty. To install Midnight Commander use yum install mc