Add Desktop mode for Centos minimal installation

Install Desktop Packages

# yum -y groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"


You can install the following optional GUI packages.

# yum -y groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools"

# yum -y groupinstall "Internet Browser"

# yum -y groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"

# yum -y groupinstall "Office Suite and Productivity"

# yum -y groupinstall "Graphics Creation Tools"

If you want terminal emulator in X windows then you need to install this.

# yum -y groupinstall "Legacy X Window System compatibility"

After that you need to edit the file 

/etc/inittab

Change id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault:

After complete the editing then reboot.

Shutdown -r now

*Remarks 

If you find downloading the package encounter problem, you can try this

yum --enablerepo=updates clean metadata

and start again

You can enjoy the Desktop / CLI mode.

      GUI to CLI: Ctrl + Alt + F6
      CLI to GUI: Ctrl + Alt + F1