On 31-Jul-08 16:28:32 Todd Denniston wrote:
whoosh wrote, On 07/31/2008 11:13 AM:
> On 30-Jul-08 22:35:16 Nigel Henry wrote:
>> On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:03, whoosh wrote:
>>> I have Fedora 9 now installed. Had to do some rearranging
>>> of drives.
>>>
>>> with Fedora Core 3 the boot up led to a choice
>>> of desktops.
>>>
>>> but with Fedora 9 on booting up there is no desktop.
>>> How can I get the different desktops that FC3 has?
>>>
<SNIP>
>> When you say there is no desktop, what exactly do you have?
>
> its just an 80x25 text screen, no windowing, it says:
>
<SNIP normal console output>
> nothing else on the screen, no windowing.
>
> I tried ctrl-F7 which the other person suggested, but no effect.
>
And in a previous email, whoosh wrote, On 07/30/2008 11:59 AM:
> I tried that just now and the test media screen now responds!
>
> vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text acpi=off
>
Which I suspect means he did the install in text mode,
I had to as the graphical install has bugs,
which leaves init at
runlevel 3.
If someone will tell him the new way of updating init to use runlevel 5 he
should be able to get a [kg]dm login to appear.
short of that you could try logging as root and issuing `telinit 5` to
get
there.
I'll try this and the `init 5' suggestion at the next attempt
Of course I am assuming that [kg]dm and one or more of Gnome|KDE was
installed.
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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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