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From: dave@westmark.UU.NET (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Booting in Single-User Mode
Message-ID: <713@westmark.UU.NET>
Date: 21 Aug 90 22:15:49 GMT
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
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You can edit the initdefault line in /etc/inittab.  Change the
default init state from 3 to 1, and the system will always boot in
single-user mode.  After you boot, enter the command init 3 to
switch into multi-user mode, when/if you want to.
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