On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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: >> >> 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 -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
