Help for a newbie

[Mustafa Qasim]

On 9/25/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>
> LvERudd at aol.com wrote:
> > Please help. Installed Fedora 7 from a disk in Linux-Mag. After first
> > and every boot I am asked for a user ID and password.
> >
> > I can get into root but do not know how to bring up the GUI.
> >
> On the first boot, it should have prompted you to create a normal
> user, and set the password. Did you create a user? If not, we can
> help you create one.
>
> While it is not normally a good idea to do it as root, you can start
> the GUI by running startx. But I suspect that X didn't get
> configured properly, so you may have to run system-config-display
> before you can get the GUI.
>
> Once you have X working properly, see if the system boots into the
> GUI mode. If not, let us know and someone will be happy to tell you
> how to change that.
>
> I do not want to give too many directions all at once, or directions
> on how to do things that you do not have to do right now. Besides,
> there are some nice GUI tools that are more "user friendly" then the
> CLI tools.
>
> Mikkel
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Hopefully you are running into Runlevel 3... to go for GUI login with root
and type init 5 it will take you to runlevel 5 where GUI is also available
with CMD shells.

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