HP Mini 1000 Mi Linux Run Level 3

[Al Plant]

Aloha,
I have one of these netbooks coming to me this week and I need to have it boot into Run Level 3 for command line use.
Anyone know if the usual changing of the /etc/inittab will do that or is there something special with respect to this unit.
Would appreciate a how-to if there is one.
Thanks...

Al Plant - Wahiawa, Hi

[avizen9]

yes, you should change /etc/inittab file and change the runlevel

here in below example the current run level is 5


id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

[Al Plant]

Thanks for the confirmation,

I'll Check the manual with the unit as to how to get root access and edit the file.

Is this a Red Hat /HP style of Linux, with Vi as the default editor?

Al Plant

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

it's depend on the installed distribution,

but mostly Linux distribution using vim editor,

as default, but the default editor is up to

you, if you like joe/vi/vim/emacs ...


mikap

[dirk dierickx]

you could install any os you want on it if you do not like the default one. there are some light weight distros out there that don't even include a gui by default.