[sin987]

the promblem is when i start up redhat it goes through all it's stuff and then comes to a prompt. it then says user login -name and -password. then the screen flickers a couple times and it gives me a blue box and just says yes or no. if i click yes it tells me a lot of information. and if i say no it goes back to the prompt. everything seem to have loaded fine. i just booted from the cd. anyways i dont know how to get it running. if somebody could link to a good how to or tell me i would appreciate it. sry im new to linux. thanks for your help.

[tsunam]

Have you already installed it or are you running it directly from the disc?

if so then you need to actually install it

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...install-guide/

that's the manual for installing rh9

You might want to look at http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=64 <---fedora (redhat community based distro) but if you want to dual boot go with fedora core 1, not 2...2 has "issues" with dual boot systems.

[sin987]

i installed it

[tsunam]

then most likely this is a x issue.. /me trys to remember what redhat uses by default as a boot loader..

but i'll bet its a problem with the x system. So if you can log in can you post your dmesg and any errors you have in your /var/log/XFree86.0.log
and ~/.xsession-errors

[sin987]

ok i just deleted that partion and redid redhat and now it boots up and goes to the gui login screen but when i log in it just switchs over to text login and then back to the gui. :? whats that about?

[liviu]

RH9 doesn't support your graphic card.
You have to download the drivers from the nvidia site
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

After you must chose for RH to boot up in text mode, not gui mode. Then log-in, install drivers and after edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config according to the Nvidia drivers README file.
Then simply start the X server by typing startx, and that's all !

[sin987]

yea i got it worked out i just put it on my secondary video card and monitor. im trying to work out x windows now check out my other post...http://forums.techguy.org/t236864.html