<p>Tim,</p>
<p>Sorry to hear your difficulties. I agree with the wisdom of installing the smallest subset of packages needed. </p>
<p>When choosing a group of software to install, use yum grouplist. I would suggest the "GNOME Desktop Environment" over plain X11.</p>
<p>When installing mysql, run the init scripts. </p>
<p>Personally I haven't run into these problems with installing a LAMP stack on a RHEL system. I haven't tried this on 6.2 so this isn't a very valid comparison right now.</p>
<p>Good luck with your future endeavors, you are obviously frustrated with your current progress.</p>
<p>I may have to use one of my current test VMs to attempt this same install.</p>
<p>Dan</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 20, 2012 8:10 AM, "Jug Knot" <<a href="mailto:jugknot@gmail.com">jugknot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
List -<br><br>I've posted a few 'Bang Head Here' notices over the past few weeks as I continue to test drive Centos 6.2 installations on a KVM (virtualized) platform.<br>Lots of lessons learned so far, with no real setbacks (just remove a KVM instance and start over). I'd like some feedback on a few generalized observations<br>
given here -<br><br>1. <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20379/centos-6-default-installation-options" target="_blank">A Good Description of the Base Packages installation software is given here</a>.<br><br>
2. My current objective is to install a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin" target="_blank">WordPress Server (Network Administration/Multisite platform) </a>that allows for multiple WordPress websites to be tested.<br>
<br>3. My 'minimum requirements' include a Desktop/GUI interface, basic LAMP functionality. This seems simple (it is not!)<br><br>4. The most 'successful' test I've run is with a LiveCD ISO which gives a scaled down version of what I'm looking for.<br>
<br>5. Multiple attempts with the 'Base Package' install have drained the ExCedrin Bottle. If I choose to 'Install Desktop' then the GUI works fine. Repeated<br> attempts to 'yum install mysql mysql-server, php-mysql' or variations (add SW packages from Admin Tools) invariably lead to #$%^& like<br>
'Denied access to 'root' (or '')@ 'localhost'. Countless web postings with step-by-step instructions on 'MySql' install are mind-numbing and ineffective.<br> Advice like 'run mysqladmin.....' fail because the privileges aren't set right at installation. Running 'mysqld-safe with --skip-grant-tables' is not a solution, etc.<br>
<br>6. Yesterday, I tried a different route --> Install Database Server. This yielded a functioning MySql environment. Simple attempts to install the GUI like<br> 'yum groupinstall Desktop' or 'yum groupinstall X11' failed repeatedly.<br>
<br>7. My HW/SW vendor swears by a 'Install Minimum' base image and adding all required SW thru the Admin menus.<br><br>Flame off. Advice welcome.<br><br>Tim<br><br><br>
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