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I have a question. I've got Virtual PC 7 installed on my 15" Powerbook 1.67 Ghz under Tiger and I'm trying to get CentOS loaded and running. I get it loaded, but I can not get the X windows to run. I've read all over the net about setting the Depth to 16 and video to S3 Trio64 (generic) 800x600 and still no luck. It either kicks me out of X with an error pointing me using the wrong video mode or places me in X with a black screen and only a movable white "X" with nothing to click on. I
I can get Ubuntu 6.06 desktop loaded and it works.
I've been to http://vpc.visualwin.com/ and seen their list of what works and doesn't and from their list CentOS 3.8 should install with no issues.
If anyone is running any non-Microsoft OS's under VPC 7 on a PowerPC please list which distro and version and what settings if any from the default install you had to do in order to get it up and running.
Thanks,
Mike

has anybody implemented Oracle app server and oracle 10g database on the Oracle Linux OS? Yes, of course. Linux OEL is our standard OS for both of them.
Is this easy to get up and running?
We have absolutely zero linux experience!Nothing is easy when you don't know it....

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