On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:14, shane c branch wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:59 -0500, shane c branch <scbranch@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> As I understand you, you wish to boot to runlevel 3 as default? > > > > Well yes and no. I do need to boot to runlevel 3 one time to get the > > VMware tools installed, but want to keep it at RL 5 the rest of the time. > > I think all you need to do is open a terminal in the gui, then > #init 3 > > That should change the runlevel to 3, allow you to do your update then > you can startx to get back to the gui again. If you want to change the active run level, you want telinit <run level> Doug
