how to boot without X

[Kirtis Bakalarczyk]

On Mon, 2004-04-10 at 09:53 +0100, david wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> How can I boot Ubuntu to the command line, and not have X start? Can
> this be done from the initial boot menu?
> I don't need this every time I boot, but there are times when having the
> option would be most useful.

You just need to remove gdm from startup.  sudo update-rc.d -f gdm
remove should do the trick.  sudo update-rc.d gdm defaults to put it
back.

>  
> 
> many thanks
> 
> David
> 
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