How to start in text mode and run startx after?

[Douglas Furlong]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:07 +0200, Cavicchini Paolo wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed Fedora Core 2 without any problem.
> When I boot the server, the system start in graphic mode by itself.
> I would like to start the system in text mode and launch the GUI by hand
> with "startx".
> 
> Where can I tell fedora to start in text mode?
If you edit /etc/inittab, and change the line
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

This will boot your system in to run level 3 (not graphical).



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