Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi > I have installed the gdm. But I need, temporaly, to boot into a prompt without > running X windows. How can I do it?
there are many ways. it all depends on what you want to do at the prompt. usually when i want to boot w/o X it is because there is some problem. i use lilo so if you use grub or something else this may not work. when your machine boots usually it says "LILO" for a second or so before booting linux, hit the shift key(not sure if it matters which one i usually hit the left one) then you will have a "boot:" prompt then i do "linux single" or "linux init=/bin/bash" linux single will get you to runlevel 1, the other one will just get you to a shell incase something is badly broken(kernel/drivers or something) i don't think either of these ways have network connectivity by default so you will probably have to manually set the network interfaces if you want network access during this. you could also do this and remove the symbolic link in /etc/rc2.d that points to your display manager (usually xdm, kdm or gdm) and reboot normally then you have a normal boot without a display manager. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
