Changing to text login ??

Quickdraw · 12-25-2003, 08:30 PM

Have been running RH 9 for the longest time, and I just made the switch to FC1....Does anybody know how to switch to the text login rather than the graphical login ?? it never gave me the option during setup....TIA

mikshaw · 12-25-2003, 09:30 PM

/etc/inittab

Change this line
id:5:initdefault:

to
id:3:initdefault: #multiuser with networking

or
id:1:initdefault: #single user

It may be a bit different depending on the distro

Kahless · 12-25-2003, 10:26 PM

That is correct for rh9.

I leave my runlevel at 3 at all times, and just type startx to get into the GUI. Logging out of the GUI drops you back to the CLI with the runlevel set at 3.

Quickdraw · 12-26-2003, 08:37 AM

Thanks all, I just switched back to runlevel 3 and it back like it used to be....thanks again!