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Author: Jerry Snitselaar
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oops, sent from wrong address.

btw, anyone know how to set evolution so forwarded mail isn't an
attachment? Don't see anything in the settings.


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Subject: RE: How do I boot into text mode, without X?
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Date: 21 Aug 2002 13:51:49 -0700
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I think you read his post wrong.

try

boot: linux 3

or

boot: <whatever the name of the kernel image is> 3


On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:29, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> Thanks for trying to help, BoBB.
> Unfortunately, when I try "boot: level 3" I get the reply
> "Could not find kernel image: level"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of BoBB
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:18 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: How do I boot into text mode, without X?
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:57:31 -0700
> "Mark Berkwitt" <> wrote:
>
> > I'm searching through the index of my copy of "Running LINUX" 3rd Ed. and
> > can't find how to boot: into level 3 (I think that's right) thus avoiding
> X.
>
> Depends on your distro, most of the "big" distro's stick to having run level
> 5 as the graphic login runlevel. what you would want to do at the lilo
> prompt is type 'linux 3'(or whatever the label is for your kernel) to boot
> to runlevel 3. If you want to boot into run level 3 by default edit
> /etc/inittab look for a like like this
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> and change 5 to 3. Im not to sure on the facts but i heard you shouldn't
> change anything else in this file unless you know exactly what your doing.
> maybee someone more experienced can put in thier $.02 :)
>
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