From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: A little background first. Red Hat recently "fixed" *cough* its anaconda installer so that one has no choice but to boot into runlevel 5. Hopefully, the Red Hat developers will come to their senses on this issue, and if they do, a version of firstboot is going to be needed that will run in text mode at runlevel 3 if at install the user chooses not to have a graphical login. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firstboot-1.2.4-1
Count me in on this one. I did a "test upgrade" of one of my machines from RedHat 9 to Fedora Core 1, and this proved to be highly annoying. The upgrade, of course, did not prompt me for anything. What was annoying was that the machine originally was set up to start at runlevel 3, and the upgrade changed it without my permission. Two suggestions: 1 - upgrade installers should preserve the system's current settings, not change them without prompting me 2 - for fresh installs, return the choice back to the user
Andriy: if the installer changed you from runlevel 3 to runlevel 5, then that's an anaconda bug. Please file a separate bug report for this issue.
J.J.: I have implemented a text-mode interface for firstboot in cvs. It does not look identical to the GUI version of firstboot but instead looks more like the 'setup' text utility. Still, it should allow you to do whatever you need to do in runlevel 3. This feature will appear in Fedora Core 2.