Kent West wrote: > Robert Wolfe wrote: > > >>Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot >>to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after >>booting up? >> >> > > As stated at the beginning of this thread, remove any login managers you > have installed; "aptitude purge wdm gdm xdm kdm" should do it. >
There is another way. You can set up the init levels to be able to change this the way most other distro's do it. Example: if xdm and gdm installed. update-rc.d -f xdm remove update-rc.d -f xdm start 99 3 4 5 . stop 01 0 1 2 6 . update-rc.d -f gdm remove update-rc.d -f gdm start 99 3 4 5 . stop 01 0 1 2 6 . This will remove the startup links in runlevels 1 and 2. Then you can change the runlevel by editing /etc/inittab and changing this line: # The default runlevel. id:3:initdefault: <------ change the number to 2 to boot up in console mode. If you want to change to runlevel 3 and still have gdm available just change the number back to 3. Or you can type "init 3" or "init 2" as root to do this on the fly. -- B. L. Jilek 52597432 | ICQ: 83785391 [EMAIL PROTECTED]|Safer, Faster, | Yahoo: bljilek http://crowbyte.dnsalias.com | AOL: brianleejilek --------------------------------------------------------
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