disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Scott Linnenbringer]

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

For future reference, you mount / with the command 'mount -o
remount,rw /' in recovery mode to be able to read/write

> 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.

Whenever you edit /etc/default/grub you need to run 'update-grub' to
install the new grub settings

> 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.

Yes, see above :-)

Cheers,
 Scott