Hi there,

I am currently in a situation where I am trying to install CentOS 7, however when booting into the installation it get into this [CentOS "core"] environment which I am assuming is a minimal installation of some sort. Typing "startx" says the command is not found. ...Anyway, the USB media that I used to install was prepared using Unetbootin on Fedora 20. That same ISO image that was used was also used to run a test installation on Hyper-V which seemed to work well and the graphical installation booted first time without any problems.

I have also tried to see if I can find something in the wiki.centos.org pages however did not ssems to come right there either.

My next stop is the LQ. I was maybe hoping someone could enlighten this one for me or provide some hints as to what I am doing wrong.

Thank you
Marios

Hi again

Just got home and same issue on home computer. Ill perhaps burn the image on disk and what see what happens. Very strange as I have not run into this issue or even a similar one before ...

p4 ?
is that a pentium 4 cpu

gnome3 will not run well and will fall back to failsafe mode

cent6.6 will mostly run on a p4
cent5 is fully supported for a old p4 cpu

startx is not used - locked out
use gdm as a NORMAL USER

Hi John VV

Thank you for your feedback. It seemed to issue was with unetbootin. I prepared the flash drive using

which seemed to do the trick. Thanks again.

Marios