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

[David Niemi]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:44 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 14:25, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > I tried that.
> >
> > I am starting to get upset now.  Mike says to update
> > but how is this possible?  All I can do is to run the
> > fedora rescue disc and then what?  Do I run the up2date -u
> > in this mode after setting up the network connection?
> >
> > Seems that whomever released this distro should throw away
> > the iso cds and create a BRAND NEW ONE.  This distro is very
> > very very hosed and buggy.  There are NO RECOVERY PATHs that
> > I can find and I have wasted too much time already trying to
> > fix what is very broken.
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> Don't get too upset :)
> You said you finished installed it in text mode:
> 2) Did Text-based installation and installed everything and hoped
>     that I can somehow fix the X11/GUI later:
> 
> Then you can update FC4 using yum as root in the console, type: 
> yum check-update
> You'll see the upgradable packages, Then you can select the packages you want 
> to update (in this case X11 related):
> yum update packagename1 packagename2
> 
> Pls let us know the result.

Shouldn't Daniel be booting to single user mode by adding a 1 or 3 or
something to the grub boot line to enable him to boot from the hard
drive in text mode to do the updates with yum?