Boots ups to GDM fine- now how to go back to Terminal?

ryan83vt

How do i make my computer boot back up to the terminal instead of going to gdm?

chatgris · Guru Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 383 Location: Canada

Ok, I'm not 100% sure on this, as I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the very first time, but I know on redhat there is a file /etc/inittab and in there there is a runlevel...

switch it to 3 for console I think and 5 for gui.

then reboot and it should take effect..

NB. This is knowledge from redhat, not gentoo.. so be careful :roll:

Josh

metalhedd · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:59 pm Post subject:

just run rc-update remove xdm
(might be 'delete' instead of remove, I dunno off hand)

Coogee · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 184 Location: E.U.

No, do not edit /etc/inittab. Gentoo uses a different strategy.
Do 'rc-update del xdm default'.
If you want to add it again do 'rc-update add xdm default'.

For more info check out this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/desktop.html

chatgris · Guru Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 383 Location: Canada

Oops sorry, just trying to be helpful while I hang around with a half installed system awaiting response on my previous post :oops: