Booting to the command line without X-windows

[Nico]

I think that you can prevent it from starting at boot by removingxorg-common
from /etc/init.d .

On 11/16/05, John W Redelfs <jredelfs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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