an easy one
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at opus1.com
Wed Mar 13 17:46:42 CST 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
To J. Eric Gilliland [mailto:patzeric at yahoo.com]
> <ctrl>+<alt><F1> thru <F6>. You are most likely running kdm which keeps
> KDE up at all times, but
> you can always get to one of the first six virtual terminals the 7th is
> usually used by the X display manager (kdm, gdm, etc.)
Once you're at a console, or even from an Xterm or other terminal window,
you can #telinit 3. This will restart the system in console-only mode, and
you can then either launch Xwindows with #startx or #telinit 5 to go back to
normal console mode.
Finally, you can look at and edit /etc/inittab, which has a line that looks
like
id:5:initdefault:
This boots to run level 5 with GUI by default. Change the 5 to a 3 and your
system will boot to console mode instead; to activate changes without
rebooting #telinit q.
Now may we mock you?
(Like I should talk, just having been hit by and vectored the BadTrans
virus....)
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