startup in a terminal
I am trying to install updated drivers for my video card on my Fedora Core 2 system. It says I cannot be in a GUI such as Gnome, which is how my computer starts by default. I cannot seem to find how to start it in a terminal only. Can someone provide me with some insight on this?
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Take a look at your /etc/inittab with a text editor.
Somewhere in it you should find the boot options for your distro such as: Code:
# These are the default runlevels in Slackware: Next time you reboot you should be in console. Switch it back when you're ready for X again. |
I often do not worry about how a distro starts when I need to "not be in X-windows" for something.
I just use CTRL-ALT-Fx (x=2-6?), when the GUI login shows up to go to a text login. Do whatever I need to do, and reboot. The command "init 3" (I think) would be correct to drop to console from GUI in Fedora. Editing "/etc/inittab" for the default runlevel is also an option. |
Oh right, sorry, I'm assuming you don't want X even loaded in the background
Ctrl+Alt+F2-6, right :) If indeed you don't want X loaded at all, then go with the 'init 3' option. (some systems require /sbin/init 3, what's up witht hat anyway?) |
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My Debian Woody installs boot to GUI in run level 3 by default. Administration tools are not the same across distributions and utilities may not be compiled with the same options. |
Thanks
I tried the first suggestion made by Awatto there, setting the defaultlevel to 3 in the /etc/inittab file. worked like a charm. I'm still getting used to all this stuff and did have a bit of trouble changing it back. I had used gedit to change it while in gnome. after the reboot, i installed the drivers, and opened inittab back up in vi. Took me a bit of time to figure out how to delete/append/save. I feel like such an id10t playing with Linux, but, after reading through some manuals I printed I got it done. Anyways, thanks for your help guys.
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Hehehe, took me a while to figure all that my first time too, I ran into the same problems... We've all done it before :)
Sorry I didn't think about that and mention that sort of thing :-\ You could've done "startx" and booted into X and used your GUI editor you know ;) |
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