On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Todd Denniston
<Todd.Denniston(a)ssa.crane.navy.mil> 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:
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> 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, which leaves init at
runlevel 3.
Exactly what I thought. I suggested attemotign an init 5
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