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Howdy, I recently installed a version of linux very similar to RedHat called "Fedora Core". Well im running it under VMWare and wish to install the VMWare tools,but in order to do so i need X to be shutdown. BUT X always starts automatically upon boot, so i dont have a chance to get into the terminal only mode.



My question is this: How do i either A: Go straight to terminal and bypass the auto-startup of X or B: How do i drop out of X to using Text Mode only.

I thought there was a option during the install to boot straight to terminal.

Nope it doesnt, BUMP.

Well it does on redhat :P

My question is this: How do i either A: Go straight to terminal and bypass the auto-startup of X or B: How do i drop out of X to using Text Mode only.



Edit /etc/inittab (or equivalent) and change your default RunLevel from 5 to 3. In full multiuser mode (rl3) you can type "startx" to get into X11.



As for getting to it just once in awhile, on your login screen there should be an ability to drop to console only mode...what version of X are you running, and what's your desktop manager? KDE, Gnome, etc?



Oh, and in case you didn't figure it out, flip that 3 back to a 5 to default to X again.



Have fun

Thankyou much apathy. Ill be trying that out later. :D

Edit /etc/inittab (or equivalent) and change your default RunLevel from 5 to 3. In full multiuser mode (rl3) you can type "startx" to get into X11.



As for getting to it just once in awhile, on your login screen there should be an ability to drop to console only mode...what version of X are you running, and what's your desktop manager? KDE, Gnome, etc?



Oh, and in case you didn't figure it out, flip that 3 back to a 5 to default to X again.



Have fun



No. It switches from 4 to 3.



And even if you DO boot into runlevel 4, you can always get into a console by doing:



ctrl + alt + F6-F12



The F key differs on different flavors.



Contact me via aim if you have any problems: AbsoluteBSD

No. It switches from 4 to 3.



And even if you DO boot into runlevel 4, you can always get into a console by doing:



ctrl + alt + F6-F12



The F key differs on different flavors.



Contact me via aim if you have any problems: AbsoluteBSD





Excuse my horribly lateness, but Linux runlevels are different through each distro, but since this is RedHat, I'm pretty sure it'll use:

# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

# 1 - Single user mode

# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)

# 3 - Full multiuser mode

# 4 - unused

# 5 - X11

# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)



UNIX/Linux RunLevels are different, too (which always messes me up when I use a SuSE box), so I'm guessing you're referring to BSD (I haven't used BSD except in console-only mode). Slack uses 4 instead of 5, though....



Shrug.

I just installed fedora core 1 too. apathy is correct; if you open /etc/inittab you can read comments that verify those runlevels.