FC in non-gui

[Sri Chav]

I changed the value in the inittab file. However, xstart doesn't work. Looks 
like the xwindows part of installation did not go well. I had installed FC2 
on top of my RH linux 8.3. Any suggestions on how to correct this problem?

Thanks
-s-


>From: gillian <gillian.bennett at celentia.com>
>Reply-To: gillian.bennett at celentia.com,For users of Fedora Core releases 
><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: FC in non-gui
>Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:36:51 +1000
>
>On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:57, Sri Chav wrote:
> > Can anyone explain why FC starts only in non-gui mode? How can I use FC 
>in
> > gui mode?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > -s-
> >
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>Have a look at your /etc/inittab file. It is a text file that you can
>edit using vi or whatever you want to use. Look for the lines:
>
># Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
>#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>#   1 - Single user mode
>#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
>networking)
>#   3 - Full multiuser mode
>#   4 - unused
>#   5 - X11
>#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>#
>id:5:initdefault:
>     ^
>this is what determins the runlevel your box will start in. If you have
>a 3 where the 5 is in this line, then change it to a 5 and reboot your
>box. It should start up in GUI mode then.
>
>ta, gb
>
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