anyone know the command to initiate the setup agent in single user mode?

Are you talking about the first boot screen? You're going to need X for that, so if you are looking to stay in run-level 1 or 3, then you need to run all the commands by hand...adduser, passwd, edit ntp etc...

However, if you are in run-level one, and are ok with X, just boot to runlevel five.

As for getting it to come back up after it failed or if you want to change something, you have to change something. The last time I tried in Fedora 8, I had an issue with it always coming up at boot. (That may have been RHEL 5 now that I think about it)

But here is how you get it to come back up:

There is a file called /etc/sysconfig/firstboot

Edit that so that it says "RUN_FIRSTBOOT=YES"

This will cause firstboot to come up, however, only in run-level 5 if I am not mistaken. Not sure why you'd need firstboot outside of run-level 5 to begin with. It's just commands that set the user, passwords, ntp and the like. You can do it all by hand.

This is, from my understanding, just running the command /usr/sbin/firstboot

--Travis

thanks - will give it a try - i've got a bad installation of fedora 10 that went straight into single user mode without running x windows - then when i try and initiate x windows it says that there is no init file!!!!

so i'm gonna try and recreate the environment that it needed to initiate the first boot of the x windows system.............if that doesn't work i'll have to try and do things by hand which as a beginner is not what i wanted to hear from fedora 10!!!!!!