On Thursday 09 February 2012 01:10:10 pm dwight at supercomputer.org wrote: > On Thursday 09 February 2012 10:57:21 am Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 02/09/2012 10:38 AM, don fisher wrote: > > > When I boot to level 2 I receive the login prompt. > > > > Why are you booting into level 2? In the old, pre-systemd days, > > a complete CLI system without X was level 3; is that what you're > > referring to? > > That's incorrect. Init level 2 was the shell. Then networking came > along, and init level 3 was the shell + networking. X came along > later, and was put into init state 5. > > Booting into init state 2 is perfectly valid, depending on what > you want to do. > > -dwight- Whoops. I misread that as the old pre-systemV days. RH/Fedora merged the networking into init state 2. But the point remains that init state 2 was a perfectly valid init state with the shell, without X. And a very useful one as well, at times. -dwight- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
