Fedora 9, installed, but no desktop

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Thu Jul 31 16:01:06 UTC 2008



whoosh wrote:
> On 30-Jul-08 21:57:48 Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
>   
>> 2008/7/31 whoosh <whoosh777 at blueyonder.co.uk>
>>     
>
>   
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks for any ideas
>>>
>>>
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>   
>> try pressing Ctrl-F7
>>     
>
> doesnt seem to have any effect.
>
> at which point of the boot process should I press ctrl-F7?
>
>
>   
Not in the bootup process but after it's booted up...and it may be 
Ctrl-Alt-F7.  If you've got a working X session that should take you to 
it at that point.  If not, try Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get logged in as root and 
start digging around for X problems.

Kevin




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