installing and selecting runlevel 3?

Brent Fox bfox at redhat.com
Mon Sep 29 23:19:58 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   perhaps my memory is just going, but did i just overlook where, in 
> the installation, i can select that i just want to boot to runlevel 3?  i'm 
> a *real* fan of this, particularly since my first attempt to install fedora
> hung at trying to run "firstboot".
> 
>   and bypassing firstboot made it clear that trying to startx with this
> particular make and model of monitor fails miserably.  i much prefer
> to start with runlevel 3, and only switch to 5 once i verify that everything
> works properly.

To get the "text or graphical" choice, you have to do either a Server or
Custom installation type in anaconda.  For people who pick Desktop or
Workstation installation types, it is assumed that they want to boot
into runlevel 5.


Cheers,
   Brent





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