switch back to text-mode

Hi, I just installed Redhat 8.0 and selected KDE as default interface, now I want to switch back to text-mode interface on boot, how'd do it? And after I got into text-mode, how do I switch to graphical interface again? Thanks a lot!

edit the runlevel in your /etc/inittab file according to the following:

# 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)
#

so for X to start on boot you would use
id:5:initdefault:

for no X, use
id:3:initdefault:

and then start X with the command
startx

christo

When I boot my Linux/GNU I get a little command line which starts with "boot:",you can enter "linux 1" here to boot into text mode (no X).
Or you can always press ctrl+alt+f1 to open a new tty (fullscreen terminal),and you can then easily switch between the tty and KDE.

You could just use the fact that the graphical interface uses only one of the tty's. If you use ctrl+alt+[F1-F6] you jump right out to the command prompt on one of the other tty's. To jump back again just use ctrl+alt+F7.

Or you cold just open a terminal window in the GUI, and jump back and forth there.

Hope this helped you.

Ta, ta...

thanks for all the replies, they really helped!!