temporarily disabling GUI login

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 05:19, Paul Greene wrote:
> I've installed VMWare on a Win2K box at home, and Fedora Core 2 in a 
> virtual machine. When trying to install VMWare tools into the Linux 
> virtual machine, the install script fails because the tools config 
> script must be run outside of an X window session.
> 
> Doing a CTRL-ALT-backspace to shut down X windows just drops me back 
> into another GUI window. I haven't been able to figure out how to 
> temporarily disable a GUI login. I'm sure it's fairly easy, but can't 
> figure out how to do it.
> 
> Help?
> 
> PG

Have you tried to edit the /etc/inittab so that the default run-level is
3 instead of 5?

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