At 11:26 PM 9/24/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>Hello... As a Linux newbie having gotten used to using the console, I'd
>like to continue booting straight to the shell as opposed to now
>in Xwindows
>(Gnome) after my installing rh7.3
>
>How do I turn off booting to Xwindows?  I've an old slow machine so
>command line suits me better.

In /etc/inittab change:

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault

This will change you from booting into X11 to booting into
Full mutliuser mode (with your console prompt).  You can
then use startx to get into xwindows if you want to play
around with it without the commitment.
--
George Campbell
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.  USA
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