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Minimal installation upgrade to GUI

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Upgrading to GUI can be done with minimal installation in two different ways: the upgrade to “Server with GUI” or “Workstation”. To upgrade, you need to have at least the following system requirements. Otherwise, there may be an issue during the virtual machine installation.

Minimum System Requirements for CentOS 8

2 GB RAM

2 GHz or Higher Processor

20 GB Hard Disk

64-bit x86 System

First of all, update the minimal installation, then check the options that we have for upgrading my “dnf grouplist all”.

Then, select one of the options, either “Server with GUI” or “Workstation”.

After completing the installation, do the following changes from the multi-user.target to graphical.target and reboot the system.

Then you can see the that it will divert to graphical.target rather than multi-user.target.

Create Text Effect on Terminal Logging Screen.

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Creating a text effect on the terminal logging screen does not require you to have any software installed (on CentOS). However, “Figlet” can create an attractive text effect accordingly.

Step 1
Download the rpm package with one of the links below. For further reference, I have mentioned md5sum and sha1sum related RPMs.

  1. https://downloadib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/f/figlet-2.2.5-18 .20151018gita565ae1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  2. https://github.com/ade9alwis/my_linux_notepad/blob/master/figlet-2.2.5-18.20151018gita565ae1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Step 2

Check that the md5sum or sha1sum is compatible with the mentioned values below.

[root@Serv2020 ~]# md5sum figlet-2.2.5-18.20151018gita565ae1.el8.x86_64.rpm

00b039d3b1eab87ba5e20975f911f771

[root@Serv2020 ~]# sha1sum figlet-2.2.5-18.20151018gita565ae1.el8.x86_64.rpm

3606400f4624e000cb22c75cbb05a6576a6c1aae

Step 3

Install the software that has been download.

yum install figlet

Step 4

Creating and text effect using “figlet”.

Step 5

Copy the generated text above into /etc/motd and save it.

Step 6

Log onto the terminal window using your username and password.

NB:- For any further details, please read the man pages related to “figlet.”