No Gui Thanks, Please Advice

[James Michael Fultz]

* Null Kühl <null.kuhl at gmail.com> [2010-01-03 02:47 +0200]:
> How to disable gdm, X, usplash and all services that loads only to support
> those from running at Ubuntu Karmic boot  ?
> 
> i dont want to remove the packages so that i dont have to re install them
> later on, i just want to disable them from running,
> to have a very lite running system and a fast boot as well.

Disabling GDM login manager:

$ sudo update-rc.d gdm remove

Disabling boot splash:

Edit '/etc/default/grub' and remove "quiet splash" from the list of
settings for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.