Hello,

He kept his setup option to login to the text mode. He is at a command shell, the basic Unix operating system.

Have him type in "startx", and he should be on his way to load up the xwindows environment.

Also, once he is done configuring the environment, he should make a normal user account, and put the root account in his back pocket. It is not good business to use the root account for everyday tasks.

Christian

As kc0arf said, the system is booting into the command shell (basically the equivalent of booting into DOS in a Windows environment).

If the "startx" command does work, you can set the system to automatically go directly into the GUI at bootup by opening the /etc/inittab file in any text editor and (for Red Hat) changing the following line:

id:3:initdefault:

to:

id:5:initdefault


If typing the "startx" command doesn't get him into the GUI (and the line in /etc/inittab already reads "id:5:initdefault"), there's a problem with the video/X server configuration. If this is the case, you can run Red Hat's X configuration utility from the command line by entering the following command:

redhat-config-xfree86

From there you should be able to verify and/or alter different facets of your GUI setup. If you can't resolve the problem and have any further questions, please post the full hardware specifications of the box, as well as the full contents of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

well you said he choose minimal install. and with a minimal isntall that doesnt include gui. it only leaves the basic stuff. so have him reinstall but this time dont choose minimal

atleast im pretty sure that minimal doesnt include gui. i cant remember as it has been quite some time. so if the startx doesnt work my guess is it is not install

Woops, missed that- you're right; a minimal install doesn't include the GUI packages.