[lug] setting init 3 on KRUD install

[D. Frye]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:10:42AM +0000, D. Stimits wrote:
} This seems silly, I should be able to find this in the help docs, but 
} cannot. I'm trying to install KRUD/Fedora Core 2on a machine with a 
} GeForce2 video card that works great except when it gets to starting the 
} X server, then it always exits abnormally. I want to install X, I want 
} to probe hardware, but I do not want it to ever try to start X. I can't 
} seem to find an option to tell it to not initialize or test X. Is there 
} a way in the initial command line to tell it to set the initial runlevel 
} to 3, as well as NEVER attempting to start the X server...and still 
} allow me to install X? In both text and graphical modes it is not giving 
} me this option.
} 

Sorry if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but you probably want to edit
the /etc/inittab file to read like this:

	id:3:initdefault:

The best guess is that you could just load the system, and then make the
change.  If I misunderstood your question, I appologize in advance.

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D. Frye
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