root at localhost

[Chris Hewitt]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 16:32, Doug Carter wrote:
> This is my first try with Fedora Core or Linux for that mater. 
> I started with a clean Hard drive. The Media check druing install
> passed the disc I had downloaded and burned. I selected ,Personal Desk
> Top, Auto Partion, and the Minimal package group (I've only downloaded
> the first disc-FC3-i386-disc1.iso )
> Everything loaded fine, on the first boot after install all the lines
> had a [ OK  ] at the end of them.
>  
> Now this is my probem;
> The screen comes up looking like I've shown below in comand line form.
>  
>  
> Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
> Kernel 2.6.9-1.667 on an i686
>  
> localhost login:            (I put "root" here )
> Password:                  (I put the password I'd used during
> installation here)
> [root at localhost ~]#     ( this is what comes up)
>  
>  
> What do I do from here?
> nothing I've tried will get me any farther.
> I've read through the manuals and can not find any help for this
> problem

Doug,

I've not tried the minimal install but perhaps it does not include X. If
not then what you have would be perfectly correct, you would have just
the command line interface. To see if you have X you could type "startx"
after logging in and see if X starts.

I always install everything (about 6.5G disc space needed) then I know I
have everything (select custom install then when given the list of
things to install scroll down to the bottom and select "everything").

Hope this helps

Chris