<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:26, Alex Deucher wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:24:13 -0700, Ian Loves Linux <linux@empireofstyle.com> wrote: > Im very new to linux and I am trying to stop or boot up without Xfree > so that I can install some VMWare tools that MUST be installed when X > is not running.. > > How do i stop x? or start up without it running? You need to start in runlevel 3. When you boot pass 3 to the kernel command line. if you want the computer to come up in run level 3 by default, edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3. Alex </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> if you want stop X when it running , init 3 as root if you want start X environment when computer start in runlevel 3, type init 5 (as root ) <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>> > Im using Fedora Core 2 Inside VMWare 4.5.2 > > Thanks, > Ian > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@freedesktop.org <A HREF="http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</A></PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Sérgio M. B. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>