From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: How do I stop GUI from autoloading? Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:43:03 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030510154303.GA776@localhost.localdomain> References: <20030510100903.GA1586@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 01:29:37PM +0000, Charlotte Miller wrote: > These instructions sound rather convoluted. Why would this individual > need to boot from an installation CD just to edit a file? I assume one > needs root priviledges to edit /etc/innitab, but wouldn't it be alot > easier to open a console, then su to root, then invoke a word processor > and open the file with it? Or invoke MC from that root console, navigate > to the file using it, then use MC's editor to edit the runlevel argument? > Please clarify on the need to do the editing from other bootable media. > > Thanks, James My reasoning was, the original poster couldn't get into a graphical console (such as ``xterm'') because his/her X configuration was incorrect and graphical environment was unworkable. Also, if he/she tried to do a [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Backspace] to go to text mode, the only effect that had was, X restarted itself --- because ``inittab'' only allows the system to run in runlevel 5. For the same reason, the OP couldn't boot into text mode when the system started up. So, I thought he/she should access the file by using the installation CD. Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs