how to boot without X

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On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 04:23:13 +0700, Phichai Phuechmongkol
<pichaip at asianet.co.th> wrote:
> For me, include or not include the easier configuration to boot in X or
> not is hard to say,both way have benefits :-)
> 
> What I did is just :
> 
> 1.check which is the default runlevel of Ubuntu system
> in /etc/inittab,normally 2,but in my pc 3 ,like this :
> 
> # The default runlevel.
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> 2.then go to the directory of such runlevel,in my case :
> # cd /etc/rc3.d
> 
> 3.as root,change the file S99gdm to K99gdm :
> # mv S99gdm K99gdm
> 
> 4.then log out from X or reboot.
> 
> that's it.
> hope that it should work.
> 
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Cant u just do this?

invoke-rc.d gdm stop
update-rc.d -f gdm remove

Just a thought

Andy