Linux Red Hat 5.1... What the hell?

[ExoWorks]

I just made a bootable floppy to start installation, i installed Redhat 5.1 Successfully. Then it rebooted the computer.
But when a LILO came i typed linux, and there was a lot of text and when all that finished, a screen like ms dos appeared, which was of kernal.
it asked me to login. and when i logged in something like this came.

root@localhost#
and commands of shell work on it, but probably i never expected linux to be like this.
Is linux really like this, or i have to give some commands to configure kernal or something like that. :(

I am really fedup of this, tried installing it 2 times, no luck, got help from redhat's site no luck as all there is about the newer versions.

Please help,,,,,

[Todd]

I don't have much experience with 5.1 but I did install it on a test box a ways back. Try to run startx, if you don't know where it is type: locate startx

Then you will know where to find it to execute it. That should start xwindows.

[ExoWorks]

Thanks a lot, will try it ...... :)

[niv]

That which you are seeing is the command line, and this is what many distributions of *nix are like. Get rid of 5.1, it's not worth using at all as it barely supports any new hardware. 7.2 is out, and it's pretty good.

[ExoWorks]

I think i must try 7.2 ....
Got 5.1 working.
redhat 5.1 sucks, no life in it. very poor quality. Many little options.
it sucks, graphics also very bad in it.
I must see 7.2.///

[niv]

5.1 is only good for use as a server, I doubt it was meant to be used as a desktop-7.2 can be used as both. :)