On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:57:48PM -0800, Mark L waffled thusly: > Okay, maybe I'm just an idiot..... I installed Fedora > Core on my laptop > (dual booting w/WinXP), everything seemed to go well > but I can't seem to > figure out how to get a GUI login. I've searched and > read and tried > just about everything I can find, but still all I get > is the text. Yes, > I'm a newbie but I know this shouldn't be this hard! Edit the /etc/inittab file as follows, changing the line id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: There will be a block of comments just above this entry defining the various runlevels and what they do. To change without rebooting, issue the following command telinit 5 All the above should be done as root. Michael. -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Bother" said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh!"