how to boot without X

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:52:56AM +0800, John wrote:
> 
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>>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.

They can, but OTOH I've never seen the point of shipping with four 
runlevels all the same.

I suspect not a lot of Linux users are in fact also Unix users.

> 
> 
>>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.
recovery mode is unsuitable for that machine.
> 

There are other reasons to not run a display-manager at boot. Some like 
a GUI on their servers, but that's not to say they want to start a 
display manager on boot. Most of my servers are headless, but a GUI 
login is possible using VNC.


Specifying whether to start X on boot is easier on RHL than on Debian.