Re: Text mode boot
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:49:51PM +0530, Manish Kumar Arya wrote:
> i want to boot my debian box in text mode by default, cuz X is not
> working properly,
> i did edited /etc/inittab file and i saw that default run leve was 2
> (but on Rhat its 5 for X and 3 for text mode multi user) . any way i
> changed it to 3 but it still got booted to Graphic mode
Runlevels 2 to 5 are identical in Debian by default. We don't have the
console/X runlevel distinction of Red Hat and some others. You're best
off sticking with runlevel 2 if you're not doing careful runlevel
customization by hand.
To disable xdm (guessing that that's what you're running - it could be
gdm, kdm, or wdm too), simply move its startup link aside:
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/s99xdm
Alternatively, you could just remove the xdm package.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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