Fedora 7 : Fresh Install, defaulted to Runlevel 3

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Aug 4 18:44:29 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> I installed F7 graphically via NFS, and on first bootup of F7 got
>> defaulted to runlevel 3.
>>
>> When I changed this to runlevel 5, I got no firstboot. Had to edit
>> /ets/sysconfig/firstboot to get it.
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is that I chose KDE instead of Gnome.
>>
> Did you do a text install? From what I remember, if you do a text
> install, the installer will set the system to boot in run level 3
> instead of run level 5.
> 
> Mikkel
> 

Not to mention the installation in text mode installs packages 
completely different than the packages that were selected. Just a 
caution. I ran a text installation yesterday which broke that way.

Jim

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