CLI login in Progeny

[SuperGus]

I would like to have a regular command line login to Progeny.

In a previous post, someone had suggested removing gdm. I did this, but my X doesn't come up right.

I had the same result with renaming S99gdm in my rc2.d directory. I reinstalled gdm and changed everything back to the default.

Is gdm necessary to run gnome? Or is there some other way to do this?

Thanks

[DMR]

Do you mean you just want to boot to the command line and not into X? If so, edit the default runlevel in /etc/inittab. At the beginning of the file, there will be a list of runlevels numbered 0-6, with a brief description of each. Just below that is a line
like this:

id:5:initdefault

Chances are that yours will be set to runlevel 5, which is usually the "boot into X" level. Replace that with the Full multiuser mode runlevel (usually 3) to boot to the command line. Typing startx will get you into X from there.

Hope this helps :)

[ 17 April 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]

[shortfella]

If progeny is the same as debian don't use level 5 use level 3 to start up with X.