1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by setting the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the file itself says nothing in it will have any effect. 2) But the file goes on to say run level 3 can be acheived by creating a symbolic link to multi-user.target. This is a lie. First of course you have to remove the old link, but once you do and create the link suggested in /etc/inittab, there is no effect whatsoever and you will still boot into the dreaded Gnome 3 GUI (I hear Linus won't use Gnome or KDE. Prehaps he's as crazy as I am.) 3) man setfont says that the alert kernel will automagically adjust at least the line height and possibly the columns if you select a larger font. This seems to be completely untrue. In fact, setfont seems to have no effect at all, not even changing a font of the same size. 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There is no hint of where the acceptable 'videomode' files might be. Using the -lines switch, it will reduce the number of lines to 25, but won't change the columns and won't get out of the hidious teeny tiny default console font. It just writes the first 25 lines to each screen at the same height, leaving half the screen blank. 5) attempting to set vga=<anything> in grub leads to a blank screen and an unresponsive keyboard. Does anyone know how to boot into an 80x25 console? (Previously: yes, yum will install wvdial, which is not installed with the GUI install, but as I have mentioned, yum will not run unless the fedora and update repos are disabled because (says yum) their .xml files do not have section headings. If you disable those repos, you do not have to enable explicitly /usr/repo. ) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
