On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:29, Don Matlock wrote: > Hi all, > New to the list:) > Anyways, I was wondering where is the area that you would turn X off > from automatically starting when you start the computer...either through > GUI or through command line would be great:). > Don Hi, I guess you have problems with X: After the bios loads, grub's console loads. Type 'e' (for edit) then select the line with the Linux version and type 'e' again. The cursor should be somewhere around the end of the line, type: single, and then press 'enter'. You will be booted in single user mode with a root shell. Type the following magic formulae: perl -pi -e "s/id:5:initdefault:/id:3:initdefault:/" /etc/inittab This is a small perl script that changes the default runlevel from 5 (graphical) to 3 (text mode). Alternative, if you're familiar with text mode editors, just edit /etc/inittab, search for initdefault and change the preceding 5 into a 3. Good luck, Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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