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Morning :),
    are you trying to install the vm tools on your linux guest?

If so in the past all I did was use su to become root cd into the fake
mounted CD drive cp the package over to /tmp unzip it and run the
install sctipt. then reboot the box.. Never needed to stop a Gui
before... 

If you realy need to stop the gui, type who -rb if you see the system
runlevel set to 5 type init 3  

That should take you to a login prompt no gui running :)

Although If you are wanting to play with a new linux package go Ubuntu
6.10 I am amazed how much better than fedora it is :) My wireless card
just worked from install !! and I am sad to say that synaptic package
management make rpm  look like a pile and the install took about 10
minutes start to finish :)



On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 09:17 +0000, Ben Butterfield wrote:
> Morning guys and girls,
> 
> I have Fedora Core 6 running on VMWare and am trying to install VMWare 
> Tools. In order to do so, I need to shut down the X server. On Debian, I 
> would normally do something like.....
> 
> /etc/init.d/kdm stop
> 
> But there is no kdm or anything that resembles it in /etc/init.d
> 
> Anyone know the command to stop it?
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Ben
> 
>