Re: [SLE] How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0
Edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the line for initdefault from run level 5 to run level 3. This will take effect at the next reboot. To have it take effect iummediately, type 'init 3' in an xterm to drop to the character interface. ~~~~~~~~ "I once thought of making a Linux distribution... then I slapped myself silly and went back to trying to cure cancer." -- Anonymous Greg Krpan (krpan@usgs.gov) Senior System Administrator / UNIX Team Lead Raytheon ITSS USGS EROS Data Center, Mundt Federal Building Sioux Falls, SD 57198 (605) 594 6854 "Kenneth Becker" <kjbecker@cais.c To: "SuSE Linux List" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>, "SuSE Linux List" om> <suse-linux-e@suse.com> cc: 08/29/2002 10:22 Subject: [SLE] How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0 PM Dear List, Hate to ask this, but how does one avoid going directly into X-windows at boot time? I would prefer to begin with the Character User Interface, if a simple change would make that happen. Thank you for any assistance offered. Respectfully, Ken Becker -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
begin Greg Krpan's quote: | Edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the line for initdefault from | run level 5 to run level 3. This will take effect at the next | reboot. | | To have it take effect iummediately, type 'init 3' in an xterm to | drop to the character interface. however, yast2 will change it back at the first opportunity unless you use yast2 to make the change. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.
Thanks to the SuSE folks on the list this was mentioned previously, edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager to DISPLAYMANAGER="console" /Dee On (29/08/02 22:26), Greg Krpan wrote:
To: "Kenneth Becker" <kjbecker@cais.com> Cc: "SuSE Linux List" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> From: "Greg Krpan" <krpan@usgs.gov> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:26:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [SLE] How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0
Edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the line for initdefault from run level 5 to run level 3. This will take effect at the next reboot.
To have it take effect iummediately, type 'init 3' in an xterm to drop to the character interface.
~~~~~~~~ "I once thought of making a Linux distribution... then I slapped myself silly and went back to trying to cure cancer." -- Anonymous
Greg Krpan (krpan@usgs.gov) Senior System Administrator / UNIX Team Lead Raytheon ITSS USGS EROS Data Center, Mundt Federal Building Sioux Falls, SD 57198 (605) 594 6854
"Kenneth Becker" <kjbecker@cais.c To: "SuSE Linux List" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>, "SuSE Linux List" om> <suse-linux-e@suse.com> cc: 08/29/2002 10:22 Subject: [SLE] How To Boot Into Character Mode With SuSE 8.0 PM
Dear List,
Hate to ask this, but how does one avoid going directly into X-windows at boot time? I would prefer to begin with the Character User Interface, if a simple change would make that happen. Thank you for any assistance offered.
Respectfully, Ken Becker
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