Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread ABBAS KHAN
Thanks you :) On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Bobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008 14:46:22 ABBAS KHAN wrote: > > Hi fellows, > > > > Pretty new to CentOS. > > I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of > > GUI (or without loading any serv

Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread Ian Blackwell
Barry Brimer wrote: > id:3:initdefault: > > This will tell your system to boot into text mode. If you want to switch > while > you are running .. you can type "init 3" to go to text mode and "init 5" to go > to graphical mode. This will need to be done as the root user. > > The obligatory war

Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread Bobby
On Monday 18 August 2008 14:46:22 ABBAS KHAN wrote: > Hi fellows, > > Pretty new to CentOS. > I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of > GUI (or without loading any services). > Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the screen at > mounting an

RE: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Peterson
Once you boot into GUI you can login as root or login as a user and once in a terminal window su - to root and then change the line in /etc/inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: You can also do init 3 after saving the change to see what will happen before rebooting. This will keep

Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread MHR
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, ABBAS KHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi fellows, > > Pretty new to CentOS. > I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of GUI > (or without loading any services). > Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the scr

Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread Brett Serkez
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, ABBAS KHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi fellows, > > Pretty new to CentOS. > I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of GUI > (or without loading any services). > Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the scre

Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting ABBAS KHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi fellows, > > Pretty new to CentOS. > I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of GUI > (or without loading any services). > Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the screen at > mounting and doing fst