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Commands and references ( GNU / linux kernel 2.4.18-3 and
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Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds The commands with their most common usage are in brackets like this: [ command ]. Don't type the brackets, just what is inside of them. Back to the index page |
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How to get a command line login screen running RedHat / Fedora Linux at boot up time: Before you do anything be aware that you are about to change a key configuration file on your system. Before you change this file you might want to make a backup of it. If this file gets corrupted your system may not boot up correctly. Ok you've just installed RedHat Linux and the system boots up to a graphical login. How do you change that? I've done this on Fedora core 3 2.6.9-1.667 (Heidelberg) and on RedHat 9 2.4.20-6 (shrike). As root,Go to the directory /etc and open inittab with a text editor like vim. You will have to be root to change this file; so be very careful - - if you make a mistake here, you might loose everything. In this file you will see this at the beginning: # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 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) # id:5:initdefault: the line that needs changes is this: id:5:initdefault: change it to this: id:3:initdefault: just change the 5 to a 3 and nothing else - - be sure that is all you change and the next boot up you will be presented with a command line login. |
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