how to boot without X

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:52:56AM +0800, John wrote:

> A runlevel in which X doesn't start is the way others do it. It's a way
> that users coming from other distroes are familiar with and I recommend it
> be done in Ubuntu.

Users who are accustomed to dealing with UNIX idiosyncrasies such as
runlevels can customize their systems this way.

> I have one system that locks up whenever I run KDE (KDM or a desktop) on 
> the hardware. Booting to (Red Hat's) runlevel 3 would have been fine - 
> everything except KDM would start.

Likewise for the "recovery mode" boot provided by default in Ubuntu.

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 - mdz