Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3
On 2012-01-13, Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
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>>
>> For me the easiest way to boot into the cli is to either disable or
>> remove your display manager.
>>
>> For gdm3, for instance, you could disable that puppy:
>
> Isn't booting into maintenance mode basically the same as going to
> the cli?
>
Well, it's going to the cli, but as root, with only a subset of the
regular system running (I think). I can't seem to find the exact
definition of 'single user mode,' but I do not think it should be
considered the equivalent of simply running your machine without a
graphical user interface.
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