Re: default run level

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <Jon.Irish@AMD.ARMY.MIL> writes:
> All,
> 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?

Your original question made perfect sense, I just can't read! ;)

Anyway, to temporarily shut XDM down you can simply Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get
a console. Then log in as root and do 
        /etc/init.d/xdm stop
and install away. When you're done you can either reboot or
        /etc/init.d/xdm start

Gary