On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Do you need to be in command line or will a terminal window do ? If you need to
>be in command line I think it's init 3
>
>On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote:
>> I have a dumb question....I need to run in command line mode and can't seem to
>> get there. Can anyone tell me how to shut down X and get to the command line?
init 3 is almost right.
At the lilo prompt you can type
linux 3
that will get you to a text mode console without going into X.
>From inside X, you can do ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a console, and alt-f7 to
go back to X. Inside X you can also ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the
x-server and fall back to a console.
Paul
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