booting Fedora without the GUI

Michael Nelson michaelnel at comcast.net
Tue Jun 27 15:10:11 UTC 2006


Abid Ghufran wrote:
> I am using Vmware for hosting 3 Fedora Hosts. I want to configure my 
> Fedora system so that when it boots I only get the CLI. Basically my 
> machine has slowed down and I dont want to over-burden it with the GUI. 
> I can do all my work without the GUI.
>  
> What should I do?

Edit /etc/inittab and change:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

If you want to get rid of the graphics during boot too, edit 
/etc/sysconfig/init and change:
GRAPHICAL=yes
to
GRAPHICAL=no

Michael




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