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Linux in Plain Text Mode
Name: Anand Devaraj Date: October 11, 2002 at 07:52:05 Pacific OS: RH 7.3 CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Is there any way I can start Linux in Plain Text Mode. Sometimes I dont want the GNOME or KDE to start up. When I boot my laptop, I should just get a plain login: prompt. Sometimes I find it much easier to just work in plain text mode.Similar to the old days when dumb terminals with login: prompts were used to connect to UNIX servers.
Name: Jason Date: October 11, 2002 at 08:16:59 Pacific
Reply:
Hit CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F2 , ... , CTRL-ALT-F7 to go between the text and graphics
F1-F6 is text F7 is graphics
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Response Number 2
Name: Anand Date: October 11, 2002 at 08:52:29 Pacific
Reply:
This is not what I am looking for. I need the name of the configuration file which tells Linux to automatically come up in a text mode and not to start GNOME or KDE during an unattended boot.
Anand
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard Date: October 11, 2002 at 08:56:14 Pacific
Reply:
/etc/inittab is the file.
Change the following line...
id:3:initdefault:
to say
id:5:initdefault:
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Response Number 4
Name: jwalk Date: October 11, 2002 at 08:57:17 Pacific
Reply:
you must edit this line in /etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault:
change the 3 to whatever runlevel you want. yours is probably set to 5, and you probably want 3.
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Response Number 5
Name: Richard Date: October 11, 2002 at 08:57:18 Pacific
Reply:
Thos should be the other way round, 5 is graphical, 3 is text!
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Response Number 6
Name: zhou Date: November 20, 2002 at 23:03:20 Pacific
Reply:
Hello, How can i display chinese or janpanese in plain text mode of Linux?? Best Regards Zhou
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