change the option to boot from gui to text
 

I have AIX 5.1, recently bought a IBM Model 7042/7043 to play around on. I want to change it so it does not boot into the GUI mode, but boots straight into text mode.


Is this possible? If so where do I change it?

Thx


Boyd

Just "vi /etc/inittab"
comment the line starting with "dt:2....."
(just remember that in /etc/inittab the comment is a heading ":", and not a "#) !

From the ascii command line, if you want to have the GUI again, just type "xinit" or "rc.dt start".
If you definitively change your mind, remove the heading ":" in the modified /etc/inittab, you will startup in graphic mode again.

Regards
Zorba

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

A possibly cleaner way is, as root type

You can do the same thing in smit with