[lug] setting init 3 on KRUD install

[D. Stimits]

BOF wrote:
> D. Stimits wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately it isn't that simple. Installation fails the moment it 
>> tries to start X11 during install. I have to keep it from even 
>> attempting to set up X11, but I want everything in place. So 
>> essentially it must remain in runlevel 3 during install and not do any 
>> X11 at all, or it dies. It would be nice if the install could also set 
>> the intial login runlevel to 3 even with X11 installed, since all 
>> graphical mode will do after install is cause catastrophic failure. I 
>> could use rescue mode after the install and before first run to mount 
>> the filesystem and edit inittab, but this will have no effect on a 
>> successful install, it'll never get that far unless I completely 
>> remove all X11 packages (and I don't want to go down that very very 
>> very long road of installing all X11 stuff later, one package at a time).
> 
> 
> 
> I haven't done a text-based installation in a while, but can't you run 
> the text-based installation by entering
> 
>    boot: text
> 
> at the initial prompt? This should avoid problems with the video card 
> during installation.
> 

Doesn't matter. Graphical install mode works fine, this is the VESA 
framebuffer. The problem is during X11 setup. Being in text mode still 
tries to set up X11 if X11 is installed. This results in catastrophic 
failure.

> IIRC, there's also an option to set how the system starts by specifing 
> starting in the text mode, which is run level3. It's somewhere around 
> the time you set up the video card and X configuration. I believe that 
> there is an option by which you can skip setting up the video card and X.
> 

I never get that far. When it gets to setting up video and X config it 
chokes. I want it to skip video and X11 setup entirely so it will finish 
install, and then find the problem later.

> If you do run the X-based installation, there are options to skip 
> configuring X under it, and one of the screens allows specification of 

This is never reached. It says something like starting X11 and dies. I'm 
never offered a chance to skip X11 config. Apparently the option to not 
configure X occurs after it does the initial X startup (perhaps an 
installer snafu).

> the startup mode. See the installation manual for more info. The RH9 
> documentation works as the setup for it and for Fedora have not changed 
> much. See
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/

According to the manual there will be a video card selection 
window...but it initializes the X server prior to offering that so I 
never get a chance to tell it no.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net