On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:47 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > id:3:initdefault: > > then the system will boot up to command line mode (NOT GUI mode) and > it'll behave like 90% of the servers out there, but you have the ability > to go to full GUI mode when you want by doing: > > telinit 5 > > as the root user. Or as a normal user - startx Then you don't have to switch run levels - which you probably don't want to do on a server (except to switch to run level 1 for maintenance, but that usually done rarely and only in emergency - and often done by rebooting the machine into run level 1) When you use startx - logging out of your desktop/window manager returns you to the cli.