How to start in text mode and run startx after?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Oct 20 11:14:49 UTC 2004


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Douglas Furlong wrote:

> 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).

and if you're already in run level 5, and make this change, you can
just switch to run level 3 at any time with:

  # init 3

rday




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