[Gllug] how to access virtual consoles?

[Dermot Moynihan]

On Saturday 23 November 2002 23:16, Walid Shaari wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 23:11, Dermot Moynihan wrote:
> > I keep reading how if I press ALT+F1 or any F key up to F6 I can get
> > virtual consoles.
> > At the moment when I load SUSE 8.1 from a boot floppy (GRUB) it takes me
> > straight to a login screen and then I end up in KDE. When I hit ALT and
> > the F keys in here I just get menus.
> > So, I'm assuming the ALT F thing is available somewhere before KDE.
> > Basically, I want to learn the command line without having to wait for
> > KDE to do it's thing every time I boot up.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Check out the /etc/inittab file; there should be an entry for the
> default runlevel such as :
>
> id:5:initdefault:

Yes this is what it says. Do I just change that 5 to a 3 (see below)?
What's the worse that can happen if I do this and it doesn't work? I'm a bit 
worried about my mail.
>
> you can change it from there to another runlevel that is not graphical I
> would presume its 3 under Suse, but better consult your manuals first.

Just looking in the /etc/inittab file gives me the following:

# runlevel 0  is  System halt   (Do not use this for initdefault!)
# runlevel 1  is  Single user mode
# runlevel 2  is  Local multiuser without remote network (e.g. NFS)
# runlevel 3  is  Full multiuser with network
# runlevel 4  is  Not used
# runlevel 5  is  Full multiuser with network and xdm
# runlevel 6  is  System reboot (Do not use this for initdefault!)

Does 3 still look ok?  Or do I still need to check the manual?

Thanks
Dermot
>
> or you can press Ctl+Alt+F1 F2 F3... from runlevel 5(Graphical) to the
> text console
>
> HTH
>
> Walid


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