> Well, at the moment, I'm running corel, and it has
> ... respawn:/sbin/mgetty.....
> 'm' insteadda 'a'. But corel is better, dont require me
> to use a password, and just makes me click on the default
> user. .. or scroll down to root.

If you're getting a graphical login (an X session manager login), altering
those lines won't help; you'd need to change the default runlevel at the top
of inittab to a lower value (usually 3 for console, 4 for X) then change
them.  You'd be dropped at a shell prompt on boot then.

> in the terminal window of corel. But oddly, if you do
> alt-F2, it pops up with a command line on the gui screen
> rather than actually giving the user the CLI text mode.

Within X, it's usually Ctrl-Alt-F<foo> to change virtual consoles -- if
Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives you a graphical command line, it could actually be a
console prompt on a framebuffer console.  Some distros do this (stick the
screen in graphics mode during boot, then run an Xvfb server) -- Slackware
8.0 appears to.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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