need help urgently, just installed fedora, but...


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i installed fedora, everything seems to have gone well. i reboot, and choose fedora (which oddly is the only choice) and it starts up. then i get a prompt to login. not the graphical one like in red hat, but a command line one. what am i supposed to do here?

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Log in like you normaly would, once in type startx and you'll be in more familiar territory.

In /etc/inittab look for id:3:initdefault: and change it to id:5:initdefault:

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hmm, thanks. i'll have to try this later. i wish it would have said this somewhere on the site though.. it would have saved me a lot of aggravation.

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Usually it should boot up in runlevel 5, there maybe something wrong with your X config,check it, as bolerodan said, before

you try to run it, or it will just give you errors.

If it gives you any errors during startup dealing with X it would cause it to drop into runlevel 3. You'll have to run

configX or Xconfig, I think it is, to config it right from the terminal.

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Redhat is a little funny in how they do some of these things...

There is redhat-config-xfree86[/green] in RedHat and Fedora.

I am not sure if they even have a full "text only" xf86config app.... :unsure:

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