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Blank video and login problem

I am an absolutely newbie at Linux. I have installed RedHat 9.0 into my system using text mode, because with GUI mode, it gave me a blank screen while installing.
After rebooting the system, it still gave me a blank screen, so I booted into the text mode and it is asking me for my localhost login and password.
As far as I know, I never set up any login ID and password during the installation, so why the hell is system asking me for the login id and password.
Can someone please help me, I am really close to giving up on Linux OS.

If you haven't set up any users yet, then you need to log in as root. You should be able to run

Code:

adduser

to set up a profile for yourself.

It worked!!!
Many thanks for that.

No problem! Sorry, I don't run Red Hat, but I think you may need to configure X before the GUI stuff will run. If you're logged in as root, try running

Code:

xf86configure

If that doesn't work try

Code:

xorgconfig

Oh yeah... have you set your root password yet? If not you may want to run

Code:

passwd

and set that up too!