[plug] Text mode login

Tomasz Grzegurzko tomasz89 at gmail.com
Wed May 31 10:53:22 WST 2006


It will probably be called something along the lines of "runlevel" in
your FC configs... 5 will be GUI, 3 will be full multimode no GUI.

On 5/31/06, Shannon Carver <shannon.carver at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to change your /etc/inittab which sets the standard startup
> init, or runlevel.  However, this is different for most distro's.
>
> My old slackware was (I think):
> Level 2: Single User
> Level 3: Multi User
> Level 4: Same as Level 3
> Level 5: Multi/GUI
> Level 6: Shutdown
>
> Others use similar run inits I think, but wouldn't try it without a google,
> just in case.
>
> Oh, and don't set it to 1 or 6 :P  In my very early slackware days I can
> remember changing it to the highest runlevel (everyone knows higher is
> better), the computer starts up, enters init 6 straight away and reboots :P
>
> Shannon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> > Of Kai Jones
> > Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:40 AM
> > To: plug at plug.org.au
> > Subject: [plug] Text mode login
> >
> > Hi guys and girls,
> >
> > I think the answer to this is staring me in the face, I'm looking for
> > the tick box/dot box/whatever box that gets rid of the GUI login to FC5
> > so I get text mode and concole access for logins. I know there's a
> > setting somewhere and as I say it's prolly staring me in the face but
> > I'm not having any luck finding it.
> >
> > Any clues or URL's are appreciated
> >
> > Cheers
> > Kai
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