On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 17:45, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > I'm new to the graphical interface in Fedora (and RedHat for that matter). > > I happened to install in graphic mode and cannot work in text mode any > > longer. > > If you don't want X to be started automatically, edit /etc/inittab: > Change: id:5:initdefault: > to: id:3:initdefault: > > You can login on the console, the "startx". > > If you also want to disable graphical booting, edit > /boot/grub/grub.conf: > Delete "rhgb" from the kernel command line. > > Or: > Edit /etc/sysconfig/init: > set "GRAPHICAL=no" instead of yes. Or you can also press Ctrl+Alt+F1 from within X to switch to a text console :-) Then, to go back to graphical mode (which usually sits at console #7), you can press Alt+F7 from any text console.