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Re: default run level



On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:26:58AM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
> This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough information
> in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a graphical
> environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the new Nvidia display
> drivers for X. After the install, I want to re-enable booting into X.
> Does this make more sense?

Oh, then all you need to do is Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in there, stop the
display manager (/etc/init.d/<whateveritis>dm stop), do the install, and
then restart the display manager. No need to worry about what starts up
at boot time.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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