Install and post-install questions

Michael Scottaline mscottaline at gmail.com
Thu May 19 08:14:50 UTC 2005


On 5/18/05, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
<snippage>
> A related question: How can I make booting to a CLI an option, like I
> have ICEWM as an option to GNOME.
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Try editing /etc/inittab
Find the line that reads:
id:5:initdefault
Change the 5 to a 3
That should boot you into text mode as opposed to gui
This MUST be done with root privileges.
HTH,
Mike
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