inittab
Sundar Nagarajan
sundar.personal at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 08:22:51 UTC 2009
Jay Daniels wrote:
> I fixed one box to boot to console, disabled GDM and created an /etc/inittab
>
> for the life of me I can't remember the command or runlevel for inittab
> in ubuntu.
>
> jay at my-t60:~$ cat /etc/inittab
> cat: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
>
> Furthermore, how do I start networking with wifi from console on bootup
> using 8.04 desktop version?
>
>
> jay
>
Ubuntu (Debian) does not use the runlevels (other than 1). And
(apparently, this is new to me too), Debian does not use /etc/inittab.
To disable starting of gdm (if you are on Jaunty), add the word 'text'
to the kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
If you want networking to start BEFORE the graphical desktop comes up,
install wicd. It will uninstall (and replace) network-manager. IMHO,
this is a defect in network-manager's design philosophy, and I cannot
understand why it is made the default in Ubuntu. Guess it is a case of
the dumbing-down of Ubuntu. wicd separates the network management (done
using a daemon) and the UI (which provides the tray). To configure
wireless settings for wicd, see 'man wicd-wireless-settings.conf'. I
cannot offer additional help, since I do not use a wireless card on my
desktop.
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Sundar Nagarajan
Linux User #170123 | Ubuntu User #2805
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