[Fwd: Re: How to start in text mode and run startx after?]

[Douglas Furlong]

this is mildly irritating...

My original email

> 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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Douglas Furlong
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