I just installed Red Hat 7.1 on my computer and when it boots it hangs,and I can't get passed the "bringing up eth0:" line or whatever it says. If I go into interactive setup I can skip past that and once it finishes it gives me a text login even though I specified graphical in the installation. Then when I login I don't know how to get to the GUI...PLEASE HELP! ! !

also...I chose KDE instead of GNOME during install.

Tried logging in at the text prompt, then typing startx to start the gui? Then you'd have a choice of either using the gui tools to see what's up with your eth0 (does 7.1 have a redhat-config-network tool?) Or getting someone to walk you through troubleshooting it from the command line.

Do you actually have an ethernet card?

I had this problem with Mandrake. I think it had opted to automatically assign an IP address but no DHCP server was configured so it just hung for ages. I fixed this by setting it to use a preset IP address rather than searching for one.

I've tried startx but it gives me errors(i will try again and repost the exact errors) and will not start. I do have an ethernet card but I don't use it I have dialup right now and no network.

"I fixed this by setting it to use a preset IP address rather than searching for one."

How do I do this?

I should also mention this is a dual boot with XP.
( I can't believe I left that out.)

Ok...here is the error that comes up when I try "startx".
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(EE) VGA(0): driver cant support depth 24
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

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XIO: fatal error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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Could it be because the resolution is set to 24 bit true color?

How do you change that in the text interface?

Can anyone help me with this?

goto /etc/X11
you should see a xf86config file
edit the xf86config file
..goto a section in xf86config that looks like this
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
------------------------------------------------------------------------
and change "DefaultDepth 24" to "DefaultDepth 16"
also change "Depth 24" to "Depth 16"

try restarting x by typing startx. if that gives error change 16 to 8