change the option to boot from gui to text

boyd98 · 01-10-2005, 02:14 PM

I have AIX 5.1, recently bought a IBM Model 7042/7043 to play around on. I want to change it so it does not boot into the GUI mode, but boots straight into text mode.

Is this possible? If so where do I change it?

Thx

Boyd

zorba4 · 01-10-2005, 03:52 PM

Just "vi /etc/inittab"
comment the line starting with "dt:2....."
(just remember that in /etc/inittab the comment is a heading ":", and not a "#) !

From the ascii command line, if you want to have the GUI again, just type "xinit" or "rc.dt start".
If you definitively change your mind, remove the heading ":" in the modified /etc/inittab, you will startup in graphic mode again.

Regards
Zorba

boyd98 · 01-10-2005, 04:03 PM

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

iainr · 01-12-2005, 10:16 AM

A possibly cleaner way is, as root type

Code:

/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d

You can do the same thing in smit with

Code:

smit dtconfig