Michael Scottaline said:
> Absolutely NO need to reinstall!!
> Even to permanently switch to a non X boot (which I do not believe the
> original poster was looking to achieve), a reinstallation is not necessary.
A
> simple edit of /etc/inittab will change the runlevel
> id:5:initdefault
> Just change the 5 to a 3
I hope the person who posted the original inquiry will try this and report
back. My impression is that the people who advise the above (not just you,
Michael) did not actually install their own Mandrake to run X automatically. I
did so, and when I wanted to discontinue the autostart, making the above change
did not have any effect. I am engaged in a long thread on the Mandrake Expert
list about this, and there is still no understanding about the cause of the
phenomenon. I got X to quit autostarting by commenting out the last line of
inittab, but that only breaks the runlevel system.
I hope no one will be offended, but this problem for me has gone on for a very
long time, and I'm tired of it. So I will only continue participating in the
investigation on the Expert list (not that I'm an expert, by any standard).
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Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
