Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobo <bijoy.lobo@paladion.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels
> from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way
> I can achieve this?
>

For me the easiest way to boot into the cli is to either disable or
remove your display manager.

For gdm3, for instance, you could disable that puppy:

update-rc.d -f gdm3 remove

Next reboot you'll be in the console (I believe).

Then you can

startx

to start X.  That's the way I lived for many years.

Or you can:

service gdm3 start

if you want your display manager back for your X session.

You can always bring gdm3 back from the dead:

update-rc.d gdm3 defaults

I think that's the way it works, anyway.  Feels cludgy, but some of the other
"solutions" feel cludgy too.