On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Douglas Furlong wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:07 +0200, Cavicchini Paolo wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed Fedora Core 2 without any problem. > > When I boot the server, the system start in graphic mode by itself. > > I would like to start the system in text mode and launch the GUI by hand > > with "startx". > > > > Where can I tell fedora to start in text mode? > If you edit /etc/inittab, and change the line > id:5:initdefault: > to > id:3:initdefault: > > This will boot your system in to run level 3 (not graphical). and if you're already in run level 5, and make this change, you can just switch to run level 3 at any time with: # init 3 rday
