On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/1/00 1:20:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> Could you please explain a few things really quick?
>
> << I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode >>
>
> Runlevel 5...is there level 4 graphical mode? What is with these runlevels,
> I see them all over but don't quite understand. Just each runlevel is a
> level of complexity, where each level depends on the processes going on in
> the level beneath?
>
There are four runlevels you need to keep in mind: RunLevel 1 which
is a single-user, no network, no GUI boot up. Run Level 3 which is a
multi-user, networked boot up, and Run Level 5 which is the GUI,
multi-user boot up. Now, these are different for each distribution of
Linux. Also, Run Level 6 is the "reboot" run level, so if all else
fails and you can get a command prompt, but need to shut things down,
you can init 6 and reboot. :-)
>
> << type " linux 3 " with out the quotes. And don't take all
> day. you only > have a few
> seconds. This will boot you into linux without X. >>
>
> How did you know this?
>
Experience. :-) Trust us... the default boot delay is something like
15 seconds... VERY short!
John
