Hope you guys can help me out Been bussy installing linux redhat 8 on my windows xp machine (dual booting) Encountered some strange events, maybe i did somehting wrong I used pm 8 to make two linux partitions (boot and swap) Installed redhat 8 choose the option automatic partitioning choose for grub boot loader rebooted and then bang first problem logon screen was in text, did not selected it. Refused to go to graphical Reinstalled, same procedure rebooted, and then linux would not work kernel panic message! Finally i got fed up with it, deleted the mbr of should i say fdisked it and am back to solely windows xp Feeling quite frustated, what did i do wrong??

your graphics card may need a different driver. Run Xconfigurator or whatever your system uses from console. If you have a G-force card you will need the linux drivers from NVIDIA site. I wouldn't mess with reinstalling until I tweaked the graphics. DId you get the installer graphics?

Thanks for the response I did get the so called x-configurator and it recognised my g-force 4 card. I even tested my desktop resolution with succes. But how do i install linux drivers if i only can use the text version?

You might get lucky and have lynx or links installed. These are browsers that run from the text based console (links can also run on the framebuffer with the -g option). If one of these is installed you should be able to download the drivers you need. You could also download the drivers in XP and save them to a fat32 partition, then mount this partition in llinux and install the drivers.

Did you try to login, and then type startx to see if the graphcal interface (X) would start?