Description of problem: Text mode installations default to init 3 with no warning and no instructions on how to start X or permanently change to booting to init 3 How reproducible: Every install Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install via text mode Actual results: Assuming successful install, machine reboots into init 3 with no hints on how to get to X. Expected results: During or post install with text mode, so brief instructions should be given on how to change from init 3 to init 5 (temporarily and permanently) Additional info: I've got stuck on this myself at least once, and there is at the time of this writing one user in the fedora-list confused by this behaviour.
Yes, text mode installations do imply a text mode login and system. That's the way it's always been. anaconda is simply not the right place to explain/warn/educate on this matter, since if we had to do that in every place someone might want it, the result would be entirely too complicated to ever be used. I will, however, update the documentation at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options to make this explicit.
So what is the suggestion for users like this? http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-list@redhat.com/msg09168.html In my case, I had a second machine, and I knew how to get to irc://freenode.net/fedora and I already knew how to get to init 5. What's going to happen to those who don't?
We have taken the option to select text mode out of the splash screen in rawhide, so any user who goes to the extra trouble to run a text mode install should already know the limitatitions it has.
Arthur, this does point to the need for a documentation improvement. Can you suggest some text that we could add to the install doc on text mode to help people who have tripped over this?