Newbie needs help - How to boot to the console

[Richard Kessler]

I frequently prefer to work at the command line, but have not found how to get
Ubuntu to boot to the console. In other Linuxes I thought just changing the run
level did the trick, but I do not find a spot to do that in the inittab.

Embarrassinly simple question, but how do I just get it to boot to the console
so that I can startx later if I need to.

Thanks very much in advance,

Richard