Install and post-install questions

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Wed May 18 16:53:33 UTC 2005


On Wed, 18 May 2005 14:17:10 +0100
Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > 5. How can I set not to start in Gnome ? To boot directly into
> > console  not X Server.
> 
> there are a couple of ways to do this.
> 
> gdm (gnome desktop manager?) is what starts x, and gives you a log in
> screen.
> 
> to stop this happening you can uninstall it, using synaptic, or
> apt-get remove gdm. this will cause ubuntu-desktop to be removed, but
> this is just a meta-package, which is only there to make sure the
> install/updater installs everything that you need.
> 
> the other way is to stop gdm running at start up, you could look at
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27740 , or do it manually,
> either by deleting /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm or by chmod -x /etc/init.d/gdm,
> so that it can't run.


A related question: How can I make booting to a CLI an option, like I
have ICEWM as an option to GNOME.


Cheers





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