From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net ([207.108.112.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15wCtQ-0002iR-00 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:31:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 73146 invoked by uid 50); 24 Oct 2001 01:28:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 65994 invoked by uid 0); 24 Oct 2001 01:24:49 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poola102.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (63.227.85.102) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 24 Oct 2001 01:24:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Problems with Red Hat install. Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:24:42 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01102318244204.05511@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 . 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup