Changing Run levels

[shane c branch]

Mark Haney wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:59 -0500, shane c branch <scbranch at barton.edu> 
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> As I understand you, you wish to boot to runlevel 3 as default?
> 
> Well yes and no.  I do need to boot to runlevel 3 one time to get the 
> VMware tools installed, but want to keep it at RL 5 the rest of the time.

I think all you need to do is open a terminal in the gui, then
#init 3

That should change the runlevel to 3, allow you to do your update then 
you can startx to get back to the gui again.

-- 
regards,

shane