Booting to the command line

From: jeff (gregadelliot_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: 28 Aug 2003 07:40:17 -0700

hiya,

Thanks to this group ive fixed my previous problems, woohoo!! cheers
again

basically I modified my inittab file to run level 4 instead of 3 so
could boot to a pretty GUI,

so thats good, very good!

but what i want to do now is how can i just boot to the command line,
like in windows where you could hold down f10 and it would boot to
DOS, is there a way of doing that on linux?

im using slackware 9.0, im using linux as the bootloader

cheers

greg

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