installing and selecting runlevel 3?

[Georg E Schneider]

Robert P. J. Day schrieb:

 >   perhaps my memory is just going, but did i just overlook where, in 
< > the installation, i can select that i just want to boot to runlevel 
3?  > i'm a *real* fan of this, particularly since my first attempt
 > to install fedora
 > hung at trying to run "firstboot".
 >
 >   and bypassing firstboot made it clear that trying to startx with this
 > particular make and model of monitor fails miserably.  i much prefer
 > to start with runlevel 3, and only switch to 5 once i verify that 
everything
 > works properly.
 >
 > rday
 >
 >
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If you can get a text-based console or boot up with "linux single" you 
can edit /etc/inittab thers a line

id:5:initdefault:

change it to

id:3:initdefault:

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