CentOS - Not able to boot to GUI?

[aspire1975]

Hi,

I recently purchased NoteBook with a default Windows 7 Home Premium.

Now I downloaded and successfully installed CentOS (CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD). But when the system boots it takes me to console.

I read some threads where people get the same issues. It seems because of the Display Card? Can anyone help me out to resolve this issue?

Thanks,
ASPIRE

[coopstah13]

did you even choose to install a graphical desktop environment when you installed the OS?

I would recommend against using centos on a notebook as the wireless support will be nonexistant most likely

centos is intended for server/workstation use, if you want to use a red hat type distro, try the latest fedora

[aspire1975]

While installation, i did observed the same issue, so installed in text mode.

If I park this wireless limitation, is there a wayout to solve this issue?

[Manko10]

You can install xorg-server, your graphics driver and a desktop environment manually, but I've never tried that on CentOS.

[Rubberman]

1. Don't run CentOS/RHEL on laptop directly - not good hardware support, though version 6 (now out for RHEL, in a month or so for CentOS) that may change.
2. Use a good laptop distribution such as Ubuntu, Mint, etc and run (if you REALLY need it) CentOS in a virtual machine. I use VirtualBox for that. It works well.

FWIW, my wife (a physicist) runs Scientific Linux (basically same as RHEL/CentOS) on a couple of her laptops, but she always has issues with them. As a result she runs Ubuntu and then the SL in a virtual machine, much more happily. The SL is so she can access all the protected systems at the laboratory where she works using the security tools baked into SL.