Disable GUI in Redhat 8.0

TexasDex · 02-16-2003, 01:56 PM

I have a Pentium II (233MHz) PC using Redhat 8.0 with the GRUB loader. I would like to use it as a family SMB and HTTP server. Because this machine is hardly state of the art I would like to be able to get the most out of the machine. Therefore I'd like to be able to turn off the GUI to save resources when I am not using the machine. How do I do this?

I have very little experience with Linux, I have only used it for a few months. The only clue I have to this problem is it may have something to do with runlevels, though I'm not even sure what they are.

fancypiper · 02-16-2003, 02:33 PM

You could edit /etc/inittab and set the default runlevel to Full multiuser mode, then it would boot into the console command line.

If you need to use X, log into an account and command startx

Code:

#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:

TexasDex · 03-24-2003, 11:22 AM

Thanks!

I got that, but I was wondering how to turn it off through GRUB. Is that possible?

fancypiper · 03-24-2003, 12:12 PM

Have you tried passing linux 3 or linux single to grub?

I never use gui login, so I'm not much help