" If your monitor doesn't setup correctly, and you can't use X-Windows... what do you do?"
You use the command line. The command line interface (CLI) is a full blown operating system, not a crippled version of the GUI. You can either go to the CLI as a one-shot fix by using <Ctrl> <Alt> <Fx> where x is between 1 and 6 or you can change to the CLI permanently by changing the run level. On Fedora if you set the run level to 3 then you boot to the CLI and run only at the command line unless you startx. Most servers use the CLI and never bother with a GUI.
"The only Redhat documentation about getting to the command line involved using X-Windows."
X Window runs on top of the CLI. It is also possible to run a shell (command line) on top of X Window which is running on top of the CLI. However you want to do it.
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