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tripwire45 08-09-2004 03:26 PM
How to boot into the shell
 
I've got Red Hat 9.0 installed as a virtual machine in VMWare but VMWare Tools can't be installed from XWindow. I need to create an option so I can boot directly into the shell. I've been Googling this for a few days and searching various sites and using the man pages but can't seem to come up with what must be a simple solution. So I've decided to humble myself and ask a pretty silly question. Help.:confused:

ToniT 08-09-2004 04:05 PM
Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?

or to single user mode: "init 1"

tripwire45 08-09-2004 04:18 PM
Thanks.

elsheikhmh 08-09-2004 04:44 PM
BTW, if u want a ((permenant)) boot in shell, multi user, with network (run level 3) u can edit ur /etc/inittab and change
Code:
id:5:initdefault:
change "5" into "3"

mustafa

tripwire45 08-10-2004 09:47 AM
Cntl-Alt-F1 did the trick. VMWare Tools are installed. Thanks for the help.


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