disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Mon May 6 04:47:56 UTC 2013


On 06/05/13 03:32, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.comwrote:
>> 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.
> Please don't top-post.
>
> You can remount "/" with "mount -o remount,rw ...".

But I think that you need to be a level #1 in order to do this.

> AFAIK the Ubuntu Live CD doesn't have a rescue mode like the Fedora's
> but the Ubuntu Server CD has a chroot rescue mode.

BC

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