Wow even worked the first time, never had that kinda luck with any other distro.

How can I make it start without any X / gui?

It won't let you even see devices like fd0 where is it, is it compiled into the kernel?

I want to be able to get in a play with and see all files, how to get access? I want to be able to start and stop the gui.

Thanks.

Edit your /etc/inittab and change
to
Load the floppy module to be able to mount your floppy:
or you can do the same with the modules app from inside the Zenwalk Control Panel. Read the manual for more details.

What do you mean "see all files"? You can toggle hidden files on/off in your file manager by pressing Ctrl-H any time. And you can do
from a root terminal anytime to get to init 3 (no X)and then
again as root to load everything back again. Or even
when you are at init 3 to only start your favourite DE, without the need for a login manager.

Okay edited the etc/inittab file like you posted and also a line in it about respawing x I commented it out with #. It will go to the initial Zenwalk terminal that shows verboise during boot up, that is still a gui type thingy. How to kill that? What file starts it up?

Thanks

Zenwalk sure doesn't like the command line. Why do you need the modprobe ?
Ingraphic its all easy.
Still got the blue terminal at start up, I've tried all kinds of things. Is that in the kernel?

That's no "gui". It's the bootsplash. If you want to remove that too, you will have to edit your /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo, but I don't understand why you would want to do that.

And I sure don't understand this:
You either like the command line or you don't, which one is it? Either way, I have already pointed you to the equivalent way of doing the modprobe from a gui.

I did try editing that, it still came on. The reason, first of all so I can see it. I don't like the resolution of it, nor the lettering on a blue background, on that PC I'm learning it. If I put in on another pc I may leave it as is. Normal start up etc.

You have to run lilo to apply the updates.

Ah doesn't rebooting it run lilo? Thats what I did.