> 2) That brings up question 2: how do I keep the system from trying to run gdm > on startup. I'm able get out of it by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace, but I have > to that repeatedly and it's very annoying. I've looked through the /etc/rc.d > directory but I can't see what's trying to run gdm. edit /etc/inittab and change the line - id:5:initdefault to read id:3:initdefault