On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
| On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > In a message dated 1/1/00 1:20:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > writes:
| >
| > Could you please explain a few things really quick?
| >
| > << I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode >>
| >
| > Runlevel 5...is there level 4 graphical mode? What is with these runlevels,
| > I see them all over but don't quite understand. Just each runlevel is a
| > level of complexity, where each level depends on the processes going on in
| > the level beneath?
| >
| There are four runlevels you need to keep in mind: RunLevel 1 which
| is a single-user, no network, no GUI boot up. Run Level 3 which is a
| multi-user, networked boot up, and Run Level 5 which is the GUI,
| multi-user boot up. Now, these are different for each distribution of
| Linux. Also, Run Level 6 is the "reboot" run level, so if all else
| fails and you can get a command prompt, but need to shut things down,
| you can init 6 and reboot. :-)
| >
| > << type " linux 3 " with out the quotes. And don't take all
| > day. you only > have a few
| > seconds. This will boot you into linux without X. >>
| >
| > How did you know this?
| >
| Experience. :-) Trust us... the default boot delay is something like
| 15 seconds... VERY short!
| John
Also, other more knowlegable users have helped us out by telling us these
little gems when we asked "how do I do this???"
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
