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Neither was I, until I tried KDE on openSUSE and Gnome on Fedora Old distros can be revived by new desktops [Cinnamon for example], but new and good versions of old distros can do the same for old desktops.
I have installed Centos 7 KDE on my non UEFI desktop in triple boot setup. Was surprised to discover that anaconda is not multi-boot friendly. You can either install the bootloader to mbr, or not at all. A punishable offence ? Anyway here is what I did .. (I wanted the bootloader to be installed in sdb5). Upon completion of the installation, quit the installer by Ctrl+Alt+F2. Login as liveuser. chroot /mnt/sysimage Then force install grub2.. grub2-install --force /dev/sdb5 (sdxx---choose your partition to install bootloader) grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg exit (to quit chroot) reboot That's all.
Actually: 1. GRUB2 always defaulted to being installed in MBR. 2. More detailed procedure can be found in Terabytes Unlimited's documentation for installing Fedora.
I wouldn't know about that as I have never run Fedora. I replaced Centos 6.5 with Centos 7. Centos 6x uses legacy grub and one is able to choose bootloader installation partition. So my post was intended to assist others that multi-boot under similar circumstances. They should just remember to opt for not installing a bootloader in anaconda and follow the procedure in my previous post. In the 'Buntu' based distros, sure grub2 always defaults to being installed in the mbr, but at least one can change that in the installers.
Mrk, I have two questions. One, I tried CentOS 7 from the minimal install disc on my HP laptop with a Geforce 9300 video card (epel repos enabled...installed Cinnamon 2.0.14 DE) but the nouveau video driver is giving me problems. Cinnamon is running without video acceleration so everything looks crappy. Why is the nouveau driver in CentOS 7 so poor in comparison to the Ubuntu nouveau driver? Under Ubuntu Cinnamon 2.0.14 runs fine on the same laptop. Two, I have a few bash scripts (wallpaper changer...my own DVD/CD burner...offlineimap...bleachbit home folder cleanup...etc.) that run from the home folder but cronie is not running them at the specified time interval. I used crontab -e to set them up as user (nano set as the default editor in .bashrc file). Any special procedure to get cronie to execute those scripts as user in CentOS 7? Hope I explained my two questions well. Thanks. . Later...
For the first, disable it. Go for the nvidia driver. For the second, are they not running at specified intervals or at all? Is it as trivial as the x bit or ownership? Mrk
The scripts will run (they are executable) if I click on them in the home scripts folder. Ownership is listed as me in properties. Thanks for the reply. Later... Bob
That is a possibility. I did have a similar problem in Ubuntu on one particular script (the same and only one I've tried in CentOS 7 thus far) a long time ago. Turned out to be a variable was needed in the cronjob. I'll check it out. Funny, the same cronjob ran fine in CentOS 6. Thanks, Mrk. Later... Bob
Found the problem why my script was not running in the cronjob. It seems my script needed a snippet of code added for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS before cronie would change the wallpaper. It's working now. Thanks, Mrk. Later... Bob