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

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<1187864621.943502.250280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Charles Packer wrote:

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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?

Because you told it to? GNOME and KDE are not the only desktops that
FC5 came with. Also, is there some specific reason you need an
unsupported distribution like FC5? FC7 has been out nearly three
months, and I expect FC8 is already on the horizon.

When I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, which is supposed
to kill X, it just recycles to the
same default window manager.

Look in /etc/inittab, at the line that is starting the display manager.
You'll possibly see something like

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon

and the third (colon separated) field says "respawn" - so as soon as you
kill _this_ process, it will be replaced with a new one.

What I want is to boot to plain TTY mode,
and be able to start X manually.

Look in /etc/inittab, at the line that says

id:5:initdefault:

You want that to read

id:3:initdefault:

Old guy

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