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Open a terminal window and type more /etc/inittab. (do this as root -- you can use su - to switch if you're on as a regular user). Look to see if you have a line that says id:3:initdefault: or if it says id:5:initdefault:. If it's the first, then you are ok. If it's the 2nd, it needs to be changed to have a 3 instead of the 5. That line indicates what run level you want to boot into. Usually it's set to 3 or 5. NEVER set it to 0 or 6.
To edit the file you'll need to be root. Use one of your fav editors and change the line to have the 3. Reboot and it should ask in text mode for your user name and password. When you log in as a regular user, you can then type startx to start into the GUI interface. I've always recommended to students to always use runlevel 3 as the default rather than the GUI because if you have video issues you can resolve it faster.
Let me know if any of this isn't clear.
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so the difference is boot up with gui or not, that should be pretty easy to understand, i'll go and check it right away :)
thanks for the reply!
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MsMittens, quite right. I should probably have thought about it more before I posted. The main reason that I pretty much believed that to be the norm is that I've always had my boxes set to boot to the console (after having trouble with video drivers before)
Anyhow...that's handy information to know, thanks.
ac
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yes, that worked great, i've got my laptop on init:2 and my desktop on init:3 since that is in the network :) this was a great help!
