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Being new to linux ive not yet compiled, installed anything other than default Redhat install, i wanted to know whats a good place/thing to start compiling/installing for a new user.
Im trying for the first time to install Nvidia graphic drivers - below quote from read me.
"Before beginning the driver installation, you should exit the X server.
In addition you should set your default run level so you will boot to a
vga console and not boot directly into X"
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault
change ur
id:5:initdefault
to
id:3:initdefault
which is the NON-X user mode
also since ur doing this for this first time so take a backup of ur /etc/inittab file before doing any changes in case something else goes wrong
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