Start Fedora with Text Or Graphic

Text-Based login can save your system resource. It is what I need with a system running vmware, fedora and win7 , i3 single core CPU & 2G memory.

 

1. telinit 3 : used to switch Graphic to text.

    telinit 5 : used to switch text to graphic.

2. The /etc folder on these Linux installations contain a file named inittab - mind you no extensions to the filename. This file contains lots of important parameters & runlevel configurations that the kernel reads while booting and configures the system accordingly. Open this file in your favourite editor and scroll down just a little bit say, till the 18th-20th line (usually) till you find something similar to this:
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# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
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    As you can see the last line id:5:initdefault: specifies WHAT MODE (Graphical/Text/MultiUser etc) to boot the system into. The number "5" here, according to the Commented out options above tells the system to boot straight into X11 (X-Windows) i.e. the Graphical Mode.

    Change this value to "3" - which according to the options - is Full multiuser mode - involving all the networking features of Linux, but in a non-graphical environment.

    That's it. We are done. Save the file and quit. Rebootyour system for the setting to take effect.