How to boot into the shell

tripwire45 · 08-09-2004, 03:26 PM

I've got Red Hat 9.0 installed as a virtual machine in VMWare but VMWare Tools can't be installed from XWindow. I need to create an option so I can boot directly into the shell. I've been Googling this for a few days and searching various sites and using the man pages but can't seem to come up with what must be a simple solution. So I've decided to humble myself and ask a pretty silly question. Help.

ToniT · 08-09-2004, 04:05 PM

Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?

or to single user mode: "init 1"

tripwire45 · 08-09-2004, 04:18 PM

Thanks.

elsheikhmh · 08-09-2004, 04:44 PM

BTW, if u want a ((permenant)) boot in shell, multi user, with network (run level 3) u can edit ur /etc/inittab and change

Code:

id:5:initdefault:

change "5" into "3"

mustafa

tripwire45 · 08-10-2004, 09:47 AM

Cntl-Alt-F1 did the trick. VMWare Tools are installed. Thanks for the help.