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Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X
installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended
up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got the X
login screen.
I was going to post
more sense?
Jon
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From: Gary Hennigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: default run level
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Irish
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:26:58AM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough information
in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a graphical
environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the new Nvidia display
drivers for X.
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All,
This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough
information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a
graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the new Nvidia
display drivers for X. After the install,
(Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters!)
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough
information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a
graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:26:58AM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
All,
This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough
information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting
into a graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install
the new Nvidia display drivers
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that the
PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
Sincerely,
Jon D. Irish
BAE SYSTEMS
Analytical Solutions
(Lower Tier Project Office)
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Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
On a clean install, level 2. Look in /etc/inittab and there you'll see
a line like
id:2:initdefault
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:39:02PM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab
to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
You don't play with inittab at all; this isn't RedHat. See
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~kmself
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
The default run level is 2[ie /etc/rc2.d/]. So presumably you want to
do something like 'mmv /etc/rc2.d/S99?dm /etc/rc2.d/K99#1dm'...[you
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
On a clean install, level 2.
Bzzt! Wrong answer
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:39:02PM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab
to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
You don't do anything with the runlevel. You disable xdm (or gdm, kdm,
wdm) by deleting
On Don, 03 Apr 2003 at 14:39 (-0600), Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that
the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
2
Jan
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Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
Score one more for don't-want-xdm-by-default
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