Shyamal Prasad wrote:
Paul> Go into /etc/rc2.d and mv S99gdm K99gdm and this should Paul> prevent gdm from starting up. IMHO this is a better way (and more correct) than apt-removing gdm. You should do the same for S99kdm and S99xdm if you have them. This way you can always change your runlevel to 2 for text logins, and use the others for normal X logins if you ever want to. If you remove gdm you lose that option.
exactly what i did!
BTW, in Debian all multi-user run levels are set up to be the same by default. You are supposed to customize them as you need. You should read the policy manual if you are interested in details: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
ah! the README in /etc/init.d mentioned of www.debian.org/doc/policy thanx for pointing to me the correctr link -sandip