installing and selecting runlevel 3?

Jack Bowling jbinpg at shaw.ca
Tue Sep 30 01:26:04 UTC 2003


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:19:58PM -0400, Brent Fox wrote:
> 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.

I did a custom install but got no boot choice dialog. Bugzilla?


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Jack Bowling
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