Re: [newbie] Bypassing X windows

[John Aldrich]

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I installed linux so that the X windows logon comes on automatically. How do
> I bypass this and go directly to the shell logon?
>
At the LILO prompt, type "linux 3" minus quotes, of course.
If you want it to PERMANENTLY change to booting to console,
go in as root and edit your /etc/inittab and change where
it says "id:5:initdefault: " to "id:3:initdefault:" 
        John