Topic: X-Server console

[DavidG]

How can one setup an E-Smith box to use an X console? I want use KDE/Gnome to interact locally with my E-Smith server.

[alejandro]

Is it really necessary?
I think people In e-smith doesn´t have plans in that direction...
(just a personal conclusion)
Alejandro.

[DavidG]

It is not absolutely necessary or adviseable on a production machine. However, for me, an X environment facilitates navigation and testing of various setups in preparation of a "production" installation.

What I'm seeking is a listing of the essential RPMs needed for installing an X-Windowed environment on a an E-Smith base.

[Randy Brown]

Hi David,

  Now i havent preformed this procedure so I don't know what the consequences of this will be.

 however e-smith 4.0 is based on redhat 6.1 so you should be able to use the standard redhat rpms to set up x on your machine.

[boyinlane]

It is relativly easy to set up x on e-smith 4, just run the redhat 6.2 upgrade, avoiding choosing things such as perl, apache etc. If you upgrade those your esmith won't work much anymore without getting the virtual screwdrivers out.  You could also install mc, and then select all the x things in order, but this is a bit more work. What I have also been known to do is install linuxconf, then choose the rpm module, and select the x packages that way.

Again, once Esmith is being used correctly, then you would be better running a seperate computer with a normally installed linux system to play around with. I do that on a virtual machine (VMware) under w2k and it works great.

Installing the xservers is also useful if you want to use vnc.

[Paul]

Anyone have suggestions for test and demo purposes to get X-server running with e-smith on an IBM 360EL Thinkpad?

boyinlane wrote:
>
> It is relativly easy to set up x on e-smith 4, just run the
> redhat 6.2 upgrade, avoiding choosing things such as perl,
> apache etc.

> Installing the xservers is also useful if you want to use vnc.