Starting ubuntu in text-mode

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Sat Sep 29 01:04:14 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:42 +0200, Sauro Cesaretti wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm a new user of ubuntu. 
> I've just installed ubuntu 7.04 and I'd like to set the startup in
> text mode. 
> I was thinking  to change the runlevel but I didn't find the inittab
> file in /etc. 
> What is that? 
> How can I do this change? 

You may just want to do this:
sudo update-rc.d gdm stop 20 2 3 4 5

> And which runlevel should I set to start in text mode? 
> Thanks for information 
> 
> Best regards, Sauro
> 
> 
> 
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