On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote: > > Question: if it starts at runlevel 3 can I log in on a GUI or is it in > text mode. If the latter is the case, I assume I can log in as user and > I should get a GUI so I can use FF, TB etc. Right? And then eventually I > need to get back to runlevel 5 as a permanent login procedure ... someday! Init 5 starts X and a GUI-type login process. When you log in, it starts your GUI desktop. In runlevel 3, you log in in character mode, but 'startx' will start X, then your desktop and after that it is all the same. Except that with the startx approach, if anything goes wrong you can <ctl><alt><backspace> to kill the X session and you will drop back to the parent character mode login where you can check the logs and try again. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com