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From: Jason <unleet@qwest.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Problems with Red Hat install.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:24:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01102318244204.05511@lightstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0110231856490.11141-100000@wb2flw.octothorp.org>

telinit 3 would be required to kill X anyway :)
actually you'll want to type
  init Q;init 3
after editing inittab, that tells init to reload its configuration, then 
switch to runlevel 3

On Tuesday October 23, 2001 06:01 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      Just hit ctrl-alt-f1.  The X window will disappear <poof>.  You'll be
> at a normal console login prompt.  Log in and edit /etc/inittab.  On line
> 18, you'll find a line that says: id:5:initdefault:
> Change the 5 to 3.  For good measure, after saving the file, type: telinit
> 3.  That will shut down X.  I don't recall the package selection screen
> being different between rh7.1 and rh7.2.
>
>
>
>
>
>           HTH.
>           Bill
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Thomas Ward
 ` Kirk Wood
 ` Jason
   ` Georgina
     ` Jason
     ` Thomas Ward
   ` Thomas Ward
     ` Kirk Wood
       ` Jason
 ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
   ` Thomas Ward
   ` Jason [this message]

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