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Re: Boot to console



OOPS, wasn't aware of that! But you are of course absolutely right. I
guess that was some old Slack leftover in my head (/me slaps himself on
the head).. Hmm although I do use Debian for over 4 yrs ofso :). OOPS :)

Pim

> --- "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <bliekp@pingwings.nl> wrote:
>
>> By changing the default runlevel. Read man init and edit /etc/inittab.
>
> No! (And I refer you to my previous post in this thread). This "changing
> run-level" nonsense is what gets a lot of people that have converted from
> RH/SuSE/Mandrake to Debian! Let's clarify a few points:
>
> Debian's runlevel organisation is that it does not make the distinction
> between what is "graphical" and "text-based", it'll run /etc/init.d/xdm in
> runlevels 2,3,(4),5 . If you don't want it to do that for a specific
> run-level you can remove the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/ by way of
> "update-rc.d" (the manpage for which you should read :)).
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
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> "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net
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> "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish
> you for all of them at once when you get better. The
> experience will probably kill you. :)"
>
>  -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor)
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