FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:06, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> If you knew
> that you just have to put boot run-level at level 3 to BYPASS
> the GUI System, how can you do it? 

You can interrupt the default boot and change this at boot-time.

> Ah, ok... but then you have this FEDORA RESCUE DISK... and
> all I would need to do, is to mount the sysimage, edit the
> inittab file and reboot -- HOWEVER -- before you mount the
> sysimage, there is a NETWORK CONFIGURATION step - and you
> are thinking - AH!  YUM UPDATES!!!  I would bet you a pretty
> penny YOU HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!!!
> 
> I did.  So I reported it so that others won't fall into this trap!

I wish you had been more specific about how if failed.  I would
have expected this to work too.  Do you remember any details
about what it did wrong?

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  Les Mikesell
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