On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:49 AM, patrickm <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I tried a NFS install and got into a problem. During the installation, > almost at the end, Anaconda gave me an error message about the fact that it > couldn't find the "gdm-2.30.4-21.el6.i686" package. I had two choices: retry > or reboot. > > On the (first) installation DVD I couldn't find the package. > Copying it from the RHEL6 DVD (where it was present) didn't solve the > problem either (not even when I used createrepo to create new index files). That is strange. In my test installs of SL alpha3, yum did find gdm on both i386 and x86_64 platforms. That is, I did a minimal install in both cases and installed "Desktop" using yum (from the SL site). gdm was installed just fine. Akemi