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10-16-2003, 02:39 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
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Changin Graphical Login to command line login
Hi, I have Linux RedHat 9 running in a PIII machine.
When Installing RH9 I setup the login to be in Graphical Mode.
How can I change the loging to be in command line mode?
I went to the system options, and system tools but I couldn't find anything to change it.
I need to change it in order to make a Video Card driver install. I have a TNT 32mb, I download the drivers from nvidia.com . But when installing it says that I have to close all kind of X. So If I have Graphical Login I will always have X running.
Thats why I want to change the Graphical Login to Command Line.
After the driver is installed Then I will like to change it back to Graphical Mode.
So, I will also need to know how can I change how to change from Command Line mode to Graphical Mode.
Thanks a lot.
3DLitio
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10-16-2003, 02:50 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
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If you want to do a one of chang while the system is running:
init 3
Then to get back to graphical:
init 5
To change it at boot time - edit your bootlaoder config (you can do thi interactively just as it comes on the screen). just append " 3" (space 3 no quotes) to the line beginning with "kernel".
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10-16-2003, 09:43 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Houston
Distribution: Red Hat 7.0, 7.2,8,9, Mandrake 9.0, 9.2, Knoppix, DSL, Fedora Core 4,Solaris 8
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In your etc/inittab file there should be a line something like:
id:5:initdefault:
Change the 5 to 3 and the system will boot to the terminal
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