Booting to the command line without X-windows

[John W Redelfs]

Because of all the Ubuntu hype, I'm coming back to Linux after several
years away from it, and I have forgotten a lot.  Can anybody tell me
how I should change my setup so that it boots from the boot loader to
a console login without X-windows and Gnome?  I prefer starting out on
the command line, and changing to a GUI only when I want one.

Alternatively, could someone tell me how to drop from the Gnome
desktop to the command line without X-windows.  Using sudo in a
terminal window from Gnome to install nVidia drivers doesn't work
because I need to do it without X-windows running.

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Your friend and brother,
John W. Redelfs AKA Tars Tarkas, jredelfs at gmail.com