Install and post-install questions

Toby Kelsey toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Wed May 18 14:46:17 UTC 2005


> simi wrote:
> 
>> 5. How can I set not to start in Gnome ? To boot directly into console 
>> not X Server.

Sam Tygier wrote:

> gdm (gnome desktop manager?) is what starts x, and gives you a log in 
> screen.

Rather than just deleting /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm, you can set up different runlevels
and change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab .

The default runlevel is 2, and 1 is single-user, so you could modify runlevel 3 with

   sudo update-rc.d gdm stop 13 3 .

and set initdefault to 3 in inittab (see 'man inittab' and 'man runlevel').

 > you could look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27740

I don't know how stable ubm (http://www.marzocca.net/linux/ubm.html) is, but a GUI for
editing runlevels seems a good idea.


Toby




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