Fedora 9, installed, but no desktop, SUCCESS

whoosh whoosh777 at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Jul 31 17:35:49 UTC 2008


On 31-Jul-08 16:07:06 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM, whoosh <whoosh777 at blueyonder.co.uk> 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?


>After it is completed booting.

>If that doesn't work, try logging in as root into the console and
>running the following command `init 5`

that has got the desktop to appear!

not yet tried the other suggestions, 






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