Re: runlevels

[Rodrigo Paes <rpaes@pobox.com>]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 10:21:29 -0700
ChadDavis <chadmichaeldavis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yo.   I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must
> turn off the xserver.  In order to this, since I didn't know how, I
> rebooted into runlevel one.  Then the script complains about runlevel
> one not being enough.  Is runlevel one more of a rescure mode than
> just a non-graphical mode?  If so, what runlevel is non-graphical but
> otherwise full.  OR, how do I shutdown the xserver directly? -- I
> could just boot into runlevel two, switch to a command line login,
> login and shutdown the xserver from there, couldn't I?
> 
> Sort me out.
> 
> 
boot the thing on rc.2 , do CTRL+ALT+F1, u may need to hit it a couple of times, then you'll be in a text terminal, loggin and run this commands:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop
/etc/init.d/x11-common stop

then give the installation another try

[]s
rodrigo





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