turning off the gui?

[Jesus, P.I.]

I'm very new to Linux, and I just installed Fedora Core 2, and when I boot up, it goes to gnome by default. Is there any way to have it simply not run a GUI, and boot straight to the cold hard terminal by default? Silly me, of course there's a way. My question is, how?

Also, is there any way of quitting out of gnome using the command line, without having to reboot? Thanks in advance for help!

[BeDe]

If you want to boot directly into a terminal, you must change the default runlevel.
I don't know if FC 2 has GUI tool to do that, but you can just edit /etc/inittab file and change the line
id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:

And, for your second question log as root and type telinit 3.

[Uranus]

You can use Ctrl+Alt+F2-F6 to switch to a terminal, while keeping X running. You can remove the display manager from the default runlevel, I don't know how this works in Fedora (in gentoo you use "rc-update del *dm default" and in arch you alter the "/etc/rc.conf" file, maybe one of these can be used for you? SM is like gentoo "telinit bootdisable xdm").
Sam

[Jesus, P.I.]

thanks a bunch, guys. I'm away on vacation at the moment, so I can't try your suggestions now, but I know where to start when I get back.

[mdwatts]

It is also explained in one of our JL Help Files.

http://justlinux.com/nhf/X_Window/Booting_Into_GUI.html