disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Colin Law]

On 5 May 2013 15:42, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:

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at appropriate points in previous message.  Thanks.

> Hi,
>  I am now already in the middle of 13.04 installation.
>
> I tried recovery mode, I could enter to it, but I couldn't delete
> lightdm.override as it is read only when in recovery mode.
>
> I did not try 'update-grub' but I am not sure it would work since the
> change was not in grub. I don't know.
>
> I have the installation CD; just for the future - is it possible to boot with it
> with a RW permissions ? With fedora it is possible if I remember well
> also in "rescure mode"
> (from the disk itself) after chroot /mnt/sysimage.

No need to chroot to access disk when booted from live image.  The
disk should automatically appear in nautilus.

Colin

>
> rgs
> Kevin
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 5 May 2013 14:27, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> No.
>>> I think I will install there 13.04 ubuntu server
>>
>> If you boot off the live CD you can mount the disk and remove
>> lightdm.override to get you back to where you were.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>>
>>> rgs
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Scott Linnenbringer
>>> <s.linnenbringer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> Thanks for your answer.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried with lightdm.override and now I cannot boot at all... it is
>>>>> stuck...
>>>>> any ideas ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stuck? Are you able to get to a text terminal by Ctrl + Alt + F1 ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>  Scott
>>>>
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