On 31-Jul-08 16:28:32 Todd Denniston 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, I had to as the graphical install has bugs, >which leaves init at >runlevel 3. >If someone will tell him the new way of updating init to use runlevel 5 he >should be able to get a [kg]dm login to appear. >short of that you could try logging as root and issuing `telinit 5` to get >there. I'll try this and the `init 5' suggestion at the next attempt >Of course I am assuming that [kg]dm and one or more of Gnome|KDE was >installed. >-- >Todd Denniston >Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) >Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
