How to make Ubunu boot without GDM

[Tommy Trussell]

On 9/1/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:05:24PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
...
> > sudo apt-get --purge remove gdm
> 
> That seems like a bit much. Only take this approach, I'd
> say, if you think you'll never again be using GDM. Otherwise
> uninstalling it is excessive.

I would argue that uninstalling gdm (or not installing it in the first
place) would be the most "Debian" way of handling the situation. As
long as you have a network connection, gdm is always just an "apt-get
install" away!

And in the first place you can always start out with a "custom"
installation of Ubuntu, which just does the base installation, to
which you can add any of the server daemons or applications you need
WITHOUT gdm, openoffice, etc. Very much like a standard Debian
installation.