On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:07:44PM +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 11 March 2004 19.03, Phil Mocek wrote:
Here is what needs to be known:
that's a very peculiar definition of the word 'need'. If someone asks a simple question, I usually try to give a simple answer. Most of the time, people just want things done. Give a 1000 word answer to a 3 word question, and people will go back to windows
I thought my summary was very succinct. (quoting myself):
* To boot without starting X11, boot into runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. * To do so as a one-time event, you can specify the runlevel to your boot manager (LILO or GRUB) at boot time. * To make this the default action, change your system's default runlevel to 3. * The default runlevel is defined in /etc/inittab.
The rest of my message was just supporting information. I should have stated that explicitly, but didn't. My mistake. The beauty of GNU/Linux is that you *can* tell what's going on behind the scenes. Blindly editing some cryptic setting in some previously-unhead-of file is not much much better than doing surgery in Windows' registry. Get people accustomed to doing things without knowing why or what the implications are and they may as well ``go back to Windows''. [Now that I think about it, I should add: Changing the default runlevel must be done as root. Linux, a regular user isn't allowed to make changes to the system configuration.] -- Phil Mocek