topic title: Runlevels
Posts: 57
pcalvert
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
#1
Hi,

Does antiX use the same runlevels as MEPIS?

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Run-
level   Description
0       Halt (power down)
1       Single-user mode: provides a root console without logon. Useful if you lose your root password
2       Multiuser with no network
3       Console logon, no X (i.e. no GUI)
4       Not used/custom
5       Default GUI logon
6       Reboot
Source of above info:

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url was:"http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Configuring_what_services_start_at_boot_time"
linktext was:"http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/ ... _boot_time"
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Phil
anticapitalista
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#2
In a word, yes.
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pcalvert
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
#3
Are the runlevels the same regardless of whether antiX is running from a hard drive or from a liveCD?

Phil
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#4
pcalvert wrote:Are the runlevels the same regardless of whether antiX is running from a hard drive or from a liveCD?

Phil
Yes
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pcalvert
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
#5
Okay, here's why I asked those questions. I recently tried antiX-M8-base1. Since I was doing some testing on an old computer, I didn't need a GUI. So I tried booting into runlevel 3 by adding a"3" to the kernel line in GRUB when booting the liveCD. It didn't work-- antiX still booted up to the desktop. A bug, perhaps?

Phil
anticapitalista
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#6
It does appear to be a bug (same for MEPIS)

However, you could use the nogui cheatcode. This disables slim login and keeps you in the shell to login as user. Obviously, don't type startx.