Thursday, December 5, 2013

VMWare & CentOS 6.4 Windows X installation

Install X Window

  1. Update the installed system
    yum -y update
  2. Install Desktop and X Window package groups
    yum groupinstall "Desctop" "X Window System"
  3. Install default/boxes fonts
    yum install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
  4. Change default runlevel to 5 (X11 runlevel)
    vi /etc/inittab
    [click insert]
    id:3:initdefault: -> id:5::initdefault:
    [click Esc]
    :wq
    [click Enter]

Install VMWare drivers

  1. Create folder /mnt/cdrom
    mkdir /mnt/cdrom
  2. Mount cdrom
    mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom
  3. Get archives with tools and drivers into tmp folder.
    cd /mnt/cdrom
    cp VMwareTools[click tab] /tmp
  4. Unpuck and run it
    cd /tmp
    tar -xzvf VMwareTools[tab]
    cd vmware-tools-distrib/
    ./vmware-install.pl
    [click enter] n-time

Add new user

  1. Add new user
    useradd bigdata
    passwd bigdata
    [set password]
  2. Reboot computer
    reboot

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