On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:57:48 -0800 (PST) Mark L <armyengineer21@xxxxxxxxx> insightfully noted: ML>Okay, maybe I'm just an idiot..... I installed Fedora ML>Core on my laptop ML>(dual booting w/WinXP), everything seemed to go well ML>but I can't seem to ML>figure out how to get a GUI login. I've searched and ML>read and tried ML>just about everything I can find, but still all I get ML>is the text. Yes, ML>I'm a newbie but I know this shouldn't be this hard! ======================== As root, open a text editor and open /etc/inittab change the idconfig line by replacing the 3 with a 5 save the edited file and your next boot *should* bring you to a gui login HTH, Mike -- "The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life" --Muhammad Ali