how to start booting in text mode

[Edwin Dicker]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ashwin kesavan iyengar" <ashwin.chn at gmail.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, 06 November, 2004 13:48
Subject: how to start booting in text mode


> Hi,
>    I am using FC2. The booting process starts in graphical mode. How
> to start the booting to take place in text mode.
>

Find this line in /etc/inittab :
id:5:initdefault:

and change 5 to 3
this will fedora come up in runlevel 3 which is textmode.
After changing you might want to reboot but the commend 'init 3' will 
suffice to entyer runlevel 3

edwin