booting in text
 

Okay, so no one answered my previous post (sorry if it made no sense, or the problem wasnt normal); i've decided to start from scratch following what some others have done here.

1). start in text mode
--hoe do i do this? I tried editing the command line after the
prompt with init=3 and init=single but it causes a kernel
panic.

2). once something right actually happens and im in text mode, I
run XConfigurator and try to get everything installed proper?
The frustrating thing is, during install it detected everything and when running the x test, it looks fine, but as soon as i click on something it freezes again.

Help help help, I don't want to give up

edit /etc/inittab and set this:

id:3:initdefault:

This sets your system to start in multi-user text mode. If you referring to the grub menu parameter passing, it should be only "3" or "1" (no quotes). forex, if you are in the grub CLI:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/Volume00/LogVol00 3

will set you to start in multi-user text mode.

Xconfigurator is no longer part of RHL 8.0. The x configuration tool is this:

redhat-config-xfree86

Of course you could still use the xf86config command but its hard to understand if your not familiar with the options to use.

thanks!

that got me into text mode, and i ran the redhat-config, but when it came up and I clicked a few buttons the screen/keyboard locked up. Could this be a bad hard drive? or is still something with the vid card? (plz see other posts)

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