I think that you can prevent it from starting at boot by removing xorg-common from /etc/init.d . <div>On 11/16/05, John W Redelfs <<a href="mailto:jredelfs@gmail.com">jredelfs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Because of all the Ubuntu hype, I'm coming back to Linux after several years away from it, and I have forgotten a lot. Can anybody tell me how I should change my setup so that it boots from the boot loader to a console login without X-windows and Gnome? I prefer starting out on the command line, and changing to a GUI only when I want one. Alternatively, could someone tell me how to drop from the Gnome desktop to the command line without X-windows. Using sudo in a terminal window from Gnome to install nVidia drivers doesn't work because I need to do it without X-windows running. -- Your friend and brother, John W. Redelfs AKA Tars Tarkas, <a href="mailto:jredelfs@gmail.com">jredelfs@gmail.com</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div>