How can I boot CentOS? It is all text!

[HotelUser]

I installed CentOS and thought it would look like this:
http://www.linuxworld.co.uk/images/linux/centos-linux.jpg

But when I turn it on it asks me for the user and password I type it in and it logs me into a text thing :S like this..

http://i10.tinypic.com/536jnno.jpg

Is there something I type, a command or something to get it like this:

http://www.linuxworld.co.uk/images/linux/centos-linux.jpg

[Splinter]

Type startx

[HotelUser]

Type startx

it says -bash: startx: command not found

[Splinter]

How many cd's did you install it from. Since you may not have installed the desktop environment. Im not sure why because most distros will automatically do this. So try using:
yum install kdeor

yum install kde-baseWhich might work.

[HotelUser]

How many cd's did you install it from. Since you may not have installed the desktop environment. Im not sure why because most distros will automatically do this. So try using:
or

Which might work.

yum install kde says
gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3 - Addons

the -base thing didn't do anything it just makes a flashing _.

I want to use linux to run server stuff on, though this was only one cd. If I get a desktop version can I still run cPanel and everything on it?

the other thing I can use is Fedora-Legacy (Red Hat®) but I don't know which one to download to let me put a server on it, or, I'm not sure which has text or not.

[Splinter]

Only 1 cd? Well I think you need to download the other cd's to get all the packages. Why not just install unbuntu server edition and give that ago. Thats only one cd.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

[HotelUser]

Only 1 cd? Well I think you need to download the other cd's to get all the packages. Why not just install unbuntu server edition and give that ago. Thats only one cd.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

cPanel is not supported for ubuntu, believe me, I would love it, this fedora thing I posted, Fedora-Legacy (Red Hat®) can I get this with a package that give me visual and not text yet it has the server stuff?

I found this list of other ones I can use too though I don't know if they have visual and not just text,
Mandriva 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
Debian 3.0 (BETA)
Fedora 1, 2, 3, 4
Trustix ES 2.0, 2.2
SuSE 9.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4
FreeBSD 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Whitebox Enterprise 3
CentOS 3, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4, 4.1
RedHat Linux
(Fedora-Legacy) 7.3, 9
cAos 2

[Splinter]

Well firstly ubuntu is derived from Debian so therefore if it runs on debian it runs on Ubuntu. The list provided is very outdated and before ubuntu was popular so that is why it isnt listed. So it will work in Ubuntu Server Edition.

[HotelUser]

Well firstly ubuntu is derived from Debian so therefore if it runs on debian it runs on Ubuntu. The list provided is very outdated and before ubuntu was popular so that is why it isnt listed. So it will work in Ubuntu Server Edition.

Thanks for all your help :D I will get downloading it pronto.

Download URL: http://ubuntu.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/ubuntu/releases/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso
Ubuntu Edition: Ubuntu 7.04 server
Computer Platform: i386
Download Location: http://ubuntu.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/ubuntu/releases/

Is the info, it's a Pentium processor, I hope it's right.

This has a graphical interface?

THANKS A LOT! +rep.

[Flisker]

On CentOS try this in command: gnome

im not sure if it will work as i only used CentOS for 3 days tehn i installed Fedora Core 5 then 7

[Tomm]

Linux server enviroments don't normally come with a GUI as it affects performance and is not required.

[Splinter]

Well looking at it Ubuntu Server Edition isnt shipped with a GUI as most server centric editions arent. But this is fine with Ubuntu because its shipped with LAMP set up so you should be able to immediately run it and it wont impare on performance and space. But if you really want a GUI just use these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

[HotelUser]

Well looking at it Ubuntu Server Edition isnt shipped with a GUI as most server centric editions arent. But this is fine with Ubuntu because its shipped with LAMP set up so you should be able to immediately run it and it wont impare on performance and space. But if you really want a GUI just use these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

When I run sudo apt-get update
it connects to a website but then after it's done the screen is just-black..

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Couldn't find package ubuntu-desktop

[HotelUser]

oh and it says could not connect to then the website name for all the websites for the update but it's connected to internet :S.