Boot to Command Prompt on FC5 - Installing nVidia Video Drivers

[lukasbradley]

I'm attempting to install the latest nVidia Video drivers on a newly installed FC5 system. I've followed the readme instructions, as well as a sticky help post located here:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68681

However, when running the 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run' command, I am notified of the following:

ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. For further
details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available
on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

The only boot options I have are GNOME, KDE, and what is called a command line option. However, that command line option is enclosed in what looks like an X-window. Surely enough, I get the same message.

Is it possible to add another option to my boot so that I go directly to a command line?

Thank you for any and all help.

[sentry]

Hey,

Couple of things...

First when you reboot, at the grub screen hit "a" and enter "3" at the end of the boot options. That will start you in user mode 3 (single user)

OR

type telint 3 as root

Any reason your not installing via yum? Much easier and all...

[lukasbradley]

Originally Posted by sentry

Any reason your not installing via yum? Much easier and all...

Didn't know it was possible to install the drivers in that manner. I will research then try this first.

Thank you for the reply.

[sentry]

If you need help and are new to this distro this is a pretty much bible for common questions...

http://www.fedorafaq.org/

Check it out, you'll save yourself a lot of frustration