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Make sure your graphic card is supported from Redhat hard ware compability web-page.
http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/

Try put another graphic card in your box and try to install. It sounds like your graphic card is not support from default drivers in setup CD. Of course, you need to install X-windows in order to get GUI.

Hope this helps.

Lintadsl -- is there a command that I can type in at the command prompt to start X-Windows, and if so, what would that be? I have already installed all of the stuff from the Red Hat CD so I am not sure why X-Windows would not be already installed.

The fact that RedHat won't do a graphical installation means it simply can't probe your graphics card and/or your monitor.

When your PC boots to the command prompt, it's doing exactly what you told it to do during install, which is boot to (probably) runlevel 3 which is multi-user w/networking enabled.

During your install did you tell the system to boot to a graphical interface??? (runlevel 5) There is an option to check to have the system boot to a GUI during X configuration.

Anyway, once you get to the command prompt, simply login (you should have set up at least one other user other than root during install), and type "startx" without the quotes to start XWindows and get to the GUI side of Linux....

HTH,
Eric

Eric -- in response to your question about if during the installation I told the system to boot to a graphical interface: I actually had to configure X-Windows retroactively after installing the Red Hat OS. The reason was because I installed Linux using VMWare running on top of a Windows XP Pro host. In the VMWare install directions, users are specified to skip the configuration of X-Windows during the initial installation and to instead configure the settings via using the Linux VMWare Tools.

You also mention "There is an option to check to have the system boot to a GUI during X configuration." Is it possible to reconfigure this option with Red Hat already installed, so that the system automatically boots into XWindows instead ofthe command prompt?

**** Lintadsl -- oops sorry, I think I pressed the "Reject" button at the same time you were writing back with your comment about startx. (When I started to rate the question the comment was not there at that time -- if I had seen it I would not have given the "Reject" rating.)

If you start a new blank post to this question, I would be more than happy to give you your share of the points...again sorry for the confusion.

Don't worry about it. I don't really care whether I get a points or not. As long as I can help some one, I will be happy with it.

Have a nice day and enjoy linux.