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Old 12th December 2005, 07:55 PM
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Boot to Shell instead of Xwindows?

I have an easy question, searched the forum but may not know the right keywords to use... I have Fedora installed on a Server and I want it to just boot the command prompt instead of booting into Xwindows. Then I can just type startx (or xstart, whichever it is) to run it but it's not taking up system resources. Thanks for any assistance!
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Old 12th December 2005, 07:56 PM
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in /etc/inittab
id:3:initdefault:
instead of 5
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Old 12th December 2005, 08:08 PM
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That did it! Thank You!
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