Running Ubuntu box headless

[Robert Parker]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 17:22, Wander Boessenkool wrote:

> > Fair enough, but I'd still like the option at boot time of choosing to
> > run the box with kb mouse and monitor, just default to headless.
>
> Then after login as a user you can type 'startx', or as root
> '/etc/init.d/gdm start' this will start a single X session or a full blown
> displaymanager respectively
>
> You could also make runlevel 3 start with gdm, and runlevel 2 without (this
> are the /etc/rc<runlevel>.d directories of startup-scripts). Then just add
> another entry to your (indeed) menu.lst identical to your default entry
> with only a '3' added to the kernel line, this will tell init to switch to
> runlevel 3 instead of the default of runlevel 2.

Thanks, that will get me going this.

Bob