booting suse into console instead of x?

Moses420ca · 08-26-2003, 09:31 PM

How can I boot suse into a console instead of right into X? Also, I have a windows domain with active directory. With my mandrake box, I could very easly connect to my network with the mandrake control centre. I want to mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass,domain=domain //windoze/share /mnt/folder

andrew001 · 08-26-2003, 09:46 PM

You need to change the default runlevel. Look in /etc/inittab

darthtux · 08-26-2003, 09:55 PM

As root, edit the file /etc/inittab
Change the line
id:5:initdefault:
or in the case of Slackware
id:4:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

Moses420ca · 08-27-2003, 08:00 AM

suse is quite different from Mandrake. All the programs are in different places and I'm having trouble running programs as root. I tried this.

Code:

drew@linux:~> su root
Password:
linux:/home/drew # kwrite /etc/inittab
bash: kwrite: command not found
linux:/home/drew # cd /opt/kde3/bin
linux:/opt/kde3/bin # ./kwrite /etc/inittab
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0
linux:/opt/kde3/bin #

I can start kwrite from the console as my user but not as root.

Thanks for any help.

darthtux · 08-27-2003, 03:26 PM

use vim
vim /etc/inittab