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How to switch from GUI to text mode?

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I have installed solaris 5.10 and it is loading in GUI mode by default.
I want to load in text mode by default. How to do this? How to switch from GUI to text mode and vise versa.?

Please help..

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In 5 seconds google answers:

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To disable the GUI startup: /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
And, to enable it again: /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e

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When its about to launch the GUI during startup, you can user ctrl+C sequence to break it and to force it to use the command line as well

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