after HDinstall - lilo args for text only?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: after HDinstall - lilo args for text only?
started by: msuho

Posted by msuho on Jan. 10 2005,01:45

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, but here goes:

On the live CD, dsl 2 lets me boot text only.

I have a mini-itx mobo with flakey video support, and I need only access it remotely once in a while, so I'd like to have it boot text only once I've installed DSL.

Are there simple changes I can make to the /etc/lilo.conf after the hdinstall that will allow this, or do I need to fiddle with the init scripts?

Thanks for any help,

Mark

Posted by jvblackxj on Jan. 10 2005,21:38

I have tried this with dsl yet, but try changing the /etc/inittab file. There will be a line that says this->

id:5:initdefault:

Change that to this->

id:3:initdefault:

I hope this helps

Posted by jvblackxj on Jan. 10 2005,21:57

i just tried this and it doesn't work. I will work on this as I would like this feature as well.

Posted by jvblackxj on Jan. 10 2005,23:17

I figured it out. Each user has a .bash_profile file in their home dir. Comment the if statement "if [ -z "$SSH" ]; then startx; fi". This will logon the user with loading X. You do have to edit each user though.

HTH