Booting into a shell.

[Nikosapi]

I have a server, It's an old cyrix 250mhz processor with 64mb of ram.
I am using madrake linux 10.1 on it.
How would I go about preventing mandrake from booting into kde all the time? I don't don't need a gui since I normally ssh it from another box. I looked in "configure my computer" and can only choose between kde or icewm as the default.
Thanks,
-->Nikosapi

[oz]

edit /etc/inittab to boot to whatever run level you want to use

[chopin1810]

I have a server, It's an old cyrix 250mhz processor with 64mb of ram.
I am using madrake linux 10.1 on it.
How would I go about preventing mandrake from booting into kde all the time? I don't don't need a gui since I normally ssh it from another box. I looked in "configure my computer" and can only choose between kde or icewm as the default.
Thanks,
-->Nikosapi

Go with another distro, like ubuntu. Mandrake is far too slow and bloated for a machine like that, it's like putting a blue whale into a fishing pond.

[anomie]

To expand on Ozar's comment, you need to find the line in /etc/inittab that looks like

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

and change it to

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:3:initdefault:

[Nikosapi]

Thank you, I'll do that as soon as I get home from school.
-->Nikosapi

[Nikosapi]

I got it working, thank you.

and chopin1810, the reason I'm using mandrake is because this computer has a cheap, odd hardware configuration that works quite well with mandrake (for now). I'd be quite nervous to install another distro while this one is working pretty good. A bit slow, but good.
Thanks for the advice,
-->Nikosapi