[SATLUG] Runlevel Switching

[Al Castanoli]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:37 -0600, HickBilly wrote:
> I am running Fedora 6.xx and the installation defaults to booting into
> gdm or kde (my choice was gdm).  I wish to update the nv graphics driver
> with the latest from from nVidia but I need to have X disabled to sh
> the .run file.
> 
> I think I can find and alter the runlevel script but short of that,
> isn't there some way of switching to runlevel 3 with a short command in
> a terminal?  I am familiar with startx, from the dos console and that
> used to be the install method default.  Defaulting to booting directly
> into Gnome is not what I had been used to...days of Fedora Core 1.  I
> have been a windows-only user until recently, so I am not yet up to
> speed on issues such as this one.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
> 
> Regards,
> HickBilly 

1. At the grub boot prompt, just enter a 3 for your current boot. 

2. Once you're at a root prompt, edit /etc/inittab to change:

id:5:initdefault:

to read:

id:3:initdefault:

so that the next time you boot, the X window system won't start up by
default.

Al Castanoli