[SGVLUG] FC4 -- how to stop boot into graphics mode

[Dustin]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Emerson, Tom wrote:

> option.  For that, I'd suggest starting in "mode 3" -- this is the full
> every-day/networking mode, but specifically WITHOUT X (at least, by
> default for most distros)

But specifically not in Debian, which insists on configuring all the
runlevels identically by default, and of course nothing about normal
runlevels applies to Gentoo.

>   $ sync
>   $ telinit 5
> 
> (some consider the "sync" to be optional -- it's purpose is to ensure
> that any pending "writes" to disk drives have completed before
> potentially losing the disk buffers.)

Are you suggesting that Linux can corrupt disks because of a runlevel 
change?!?

Dustin