Low end PC as home server, what package should I install?

[Brian McKee]

Worse than that - the runlevel 3 / 5 thing is a Redhat-ism
and doesn't apply to Ubunty.....

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Robert Sweetnam <robert at sweetnam.eu> wrote:
> Apologies to all, formatting in my reply was a bit messed up to say the
>  least.
>  Below is my reply in full minus original text.
>
>  ------------
>
>
>  Agreed,
>
>  If you only happen to have the install media for Ubuntu Desktop then by
>  all means install what you need to. However it would be best to set your
>  runlevel to 3 which is full multi-user with networking and some services.
>
>  This will ensure that in the event of an unexpected reboot that your
>  machine will boot up 'console only' i.e. no graphical display or window
>  manager etc running in the background. It should also ensure that your
>  network services such as Samba etc. will still run on booting.
>
>  You can do this by the following steps:
>
>  1.  Make a backup of /etc/inittab
>
>  2. Edit /etc/inittab and somewhere in the first 5 lines is an entry for
>
> the default runlevel. On my machine it looks like this:
>
>  # The default runlevel.
>  id:5:initdefault:
>
>  3. To make runlevel 3 the default, change the 5 in the example above to 3.
>
>
>
>  If access to X is needed then at a console on the physical machine you
>  can simply enter the command:
>
>  startx
>
>  Provided X has been configured. Which is likely if you use the desktop
>  distribution.
>
>  Regards
>  Robert
>
>
>
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