Installing FC6 on VPC 2007

[Phil Meyer]

Eric Mader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed FC6 on MS VPC 2007. It seems that the graphical 
> installer now runs at full screen resolution, which means that it sets 
> the screen depth to 24 bits. Unfortunately, the virtual graphics card 
> in VPC 2007 only runs at 8, 16 and 32 bits. This means that the screen 
> for the graphical installer is unreadable... :-(
>
> I did some Google searches and found that I can boot the installer 
> with "linux resolution=1024x768", for example, but this doesn't change 
> the depth. I couldn't find any boot command that sets the screen 
> depth. Is there a way to change the depth that the graphical installer 
> uses?
>
> I did a text install. That leaves me with a system that doesn't start 
> X on boot. I also never got the option during install to create a 
> regular user. Is this a result of doing a text install instead a 
> graphical install?
>
> Regards,
> Eric Mader
> IBM GCoC - ICU Team
>

It is normal behavior for the text install to set the default run level 
to 3.

Edit /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 5 after doing a 
text install if you want X to run thereafter.