On Thursday 09 February 2012 01:10:10 pm dwight at supercomputer.org
wrote:
> On Thursday 09 February 2012 10:57:21 am Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 02/09/2012 10:38 AM, don fisher wrote:
> > > When I boot to level 2 I receive the login prompt.
> >
> > Why are you booting into level 2? In the old, pre-systemd days,
> > a complete CLI system without X was level 3; is that what you're
> > referring to?
>
> That's incorrect. Init level 2 was the shell. Then networking came
> along, and init level 3 was the shell + networking. X came along
> later, and was put into init state 5.
>
> Booting into init state 2 is perfectly valid, depending on what
> you want to do.
>
> -dwight-
Whoops. I misread that as the old pre-systemV days. RH/Fedora merged
the networking into init state 2. But the point remains that init
state 2 was a perfectly valid init state with the shell, without X.
And a very useful one as well, at times.
-dwight-
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