Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/06/19 23:22 (GMT-0700) Richard E Miles apparently typed:

> 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.
> I am new to ubuntu. My previous distro was Centos 4.5. On that system there was an /etc/inittab to set the start up run level. But on ubuntu this file does not exist. I would greatly appreciate any help on this issue.

The "runlevel system" employed by Debians annoys me greatly. I have yet to bother to find out how to prevent X from starting in *buntu, but in Feisty as a workaround I put aliases into my
/root/.bashrc to make starting and stopping X less of a PITA:

alias Xoff='/etc/init.d/kdm stop'
alias Xon='/etc/init.d/kdm start'

When I need a vc, which is about as often as not, I simply switch from X with Ctrl-Alt-Fx. To start or stop X as to test configuration changes I use the aliases. In order to prevent X from even
starting on a boot you can append single or 1 to the kernel line in grub, as when you have horribly broken X and need to try to fix it before letting it try to start.
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