Re: Questions from a new debian user

["John Anderson" <jkanders@alpha.delta.edu>]

I found the easiest way to deactivate XDM on startup was to simply rename
xdm to xdm.d in the dir </etc/init.d>.  Now when the computer starts up,
it stays in the text mode until a user wishes to enter x by typing
<startx>. All you have to do is enter the /etc/init.d directory and type
mv xdm <newname>, newname being any name.  The computer will not recognise
it and xdm will fail to startup on boot.  This is the easiest way I
figured out how to use the text mode and X interchangeably.

Hope this helps.