[CALUG] How do I get out of X?

[John Alan Hastings]

Browne at t-online.de wrote:
> Hmmm, guess I haven't needed to do this since quite a few
> releases ago.  I'm trying to upgrade my graphics driver
> (to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run), which means
> I have to get out of X.  As I recall, there was always a menu
> option at the login screen to log in without X running, but now
> with RH AS3, I see no such option.  Killing X, and everything
> that looks connected to X, only results in it automatically
> restarting.   init 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 (it doesn't seem to matter)
> just causes the machine to reboot all the way back to run
> level 6.  What obvious solution am I missing?
> 
> TIA - Ed

It doesn't sound quite right.  Init 3 should take you to full multiuser
with net but without X.  Init 4 should be undefined and I don't know
what it would do.

I would do a CTRL-ALT-F1 and log in as root at the system console and do
 an init 1 there.  This is single user, no net and no X.

Alan