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I have a Red Hat 9 which is a gateway server for my home network. The machine is a Pentium 3 and is a bit past it. When doing the installation I installed X just incase I wanted to use.
I am sure that during installation I was never asked about booting into text mode.
When booting in I get the graphical login screen. I want to change this to be the console.
I have checked my /etc/inittab file and have the following:
id:3:initdefault:
Which I assume would boot me into the console and would be:
id:5:initdefault:
If ot was to use the Graphical login.
Is there anything else which defines this? Does anyone have any ideas why this is.
I have checked the /etc/inittab file while logged in over SSH from outside but I'm sure this doesn't have any effect and that the /etc/inittab is global.
No, Kernel parameter doesn't force the runlevel. This seems strange to me, I have checked my inittab file against another Red Hat 9 installation I have at work which doesn't have X installed they are identical.
STOP in true Newbie fashion I have just realised what I have done. The PuTTY screens are confusing me. On my gateway machine the inittab reads:
id:5:initdefault:
I must of been looking at the wrong file. At least now I know why its booting in Graphical mode and everything makes sense again.
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