Install and post-install questions

Michael Beattie mtbeedee at gmail.com
Thu May 19 10:23:19 UTC 2005


On 5/19/05, Michael Scottaline <mscottaline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/05, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> <snippage>
> > A related question: How can I make booting to a CLI an option, like I
> > have ICEWM as an option to GNOME.
> =====================
> Try editing /etc/inittab
> Find the line that reads:
> id:5:initdefault
> Change the 5 to a 3
> That should boot you into text mode as opposed to gui
> This MUST be done with root privileges.
> HTH,
> Mike
> --

The default runlevel in ubuntu (and debian actually) is 2, not 5.  So
you could change it from a 2 to a 3.




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