Re: How boot FC 5 to plain TTY terminal mode?

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:23:41 -0700, Charles Packer wrote:

In a Fedora Core 5 installation I just finished using the custom-build
route, I _think_ I declined both GNOME and KDE desktops. So why does it
boot to
a windows manager? When I press
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, which is supposed to kill X, it just recycles to the
same default window manager. What I
want is to boot to plain TTY mode,
and be able to start X manually.

In /etc/inittab set the run level to 3.
.

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