Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 23:09:11 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:22:21 -0700
> >
> > Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> I would like to start ubuntu feisty faun and have it run at run level 3
> >> rather than starting on the X server. Is there a way to have it start at
> >> run level 3.
> >
> > On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, X runs in runlevel 2 , and
> > there is no distinction between this and running without X.
>
> I'm not sure if Peter means what I was going to say...
>
> In Ubuntu (or Debian) X runs in runlevels 2, 3, 4 & 5, so simply changing
> to runlevel 3 won't do what you want.
> --
> derek

Well, if he just wants to not worry about loggin into Xwindows, then he can 
just hit CTRL ALT F1 at the login prompt and end up in a console. aybe that 
what he's after?

James