On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:06 +0200, M wrote: > I have a laptop installation and it figured most of thre drivers , > fedora core 5. it boots fine and then comes to this localhost login > screen, where i used root and gave pwd and then goes to > root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx it.. i did the telinit 5 and its say switching > to runlevel 5. > > some one replied saying i need to make another directory/username than > root to get int?? i made a directory but still it insists on local > host login? I think we have a misunderstanding here. After you have logged in as root. (root@login is only the prompt at that ppoint since you machine does not have a name. run: init 3 so oyu are sure you are in init level 3. Then run: system-config-display to ovnfigure your display . Once you do that type: init 5 and see if X comes up. If it does you are set. You can login and define another user using: System -> Administration -> Users and Groups. See if oyu can get that far then read about the /etc/host file and naming a machine. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
