disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Tom H]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, but that's the runlevel of recovery mode.