Re: How to boot to text mode?

["Stephan Hachinger" <sh@arcormail.de>]

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From: Godric <godric@dial.pipex.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:30 PM
Subject: How to boot to text mode?


> Apologies for what may be a very simple question - but I'm new using
> Debian (migrated from Suse  which I've  had only been using for a while)
> but what file do I have to change in Debian 2.1 so that on booting I go
> straight to text mode to login rather than the graphical login? I know
> in Suse its the /etc/rc.config
> Any help appreciated thanks.
>
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I think simply uninstalling the x11 section package xdm helps.

Or delete the symlinks to xdm in the runlevel config directories
(etc/rc<number>.d) (<number> is a figure from 0 to 8).



Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.