On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). > > Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, > bypassing X? Thanks! there have been a lot of answers addressing changing what services/daemons start at each runlevel. if you want to by default start/boot your machine and go to a command prompt and not have X start use vim and edit /etc/inittab - there are comments in the files. The line you are looking for is inittab - set it to 2 not 3 > > --Rob -- "You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more -- when there's more than talk, there's just actual -- a paradigm shift." - George W. Bush 07/01/2003 Washington, DC
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