Hello Bob, Olle and David, thanks a lot for your help!
On 07 August 2005 Bob Proulx wrote: > By default in Debian all run levels are the same. Having them > different is not something that many Debian people want and so it is > not the default. (Most questions asking for it come from people who > have used other systems where runlevels are used. They have yet to > realize how easy it is to install and remove software on Debian and so > are still thinking in terms of those other systems.) > But it is certainly possible to configure your system so that runlevel > 3 does not start up a graphical login. You can do this either of two > ways. Use one of the management programs sysvconfig, rcconf, or > sysv-rc-conf. > apt-get install sysv-rc-conf I will test this, when I have more time, but this one is what I have wanted: > Or just move the symlink yourself manually. Your manual changes will > be recognized and preserved on future upgrades. > cd /etc/rc3.d > mv S99kdm K99kdm > mv S99gdm K99gdm I changed in /etc/rc2.d the symlinks to XS99gdm and XS99kdm and now my system boots to command line. I can then even after I have logged in as a normal user start the graphical login via su -c "/etc/init.d/gdm start" or can use startx directly. In addition if I set now the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 5 (which I didn't do normally, just for testing) I can use init 5 to start the graphical login. Also I have known before in theory how the SysV init process is functioning, I now understand it really, how it is working. Again, thanks a lot, I have learned a lot. My Debian system will become more and more usable :-) > But regardless of this I still recommend removing the graphical > display manager if you are not using it. Just call me a clean freak. > Also Control-Alt-F1 will get you to the text console. I frequently > use that to use a text console when I want one. Then Alt-F7 gets you > back to the graphical environment. This is very nice for switching > back and forth on demand. I knew that, but I wanted to boot to a text mode login, as I want to install the Nvidia drivers, and they recommend to boot to text login, if something goes wrong. Peter -- peter_sulzer doesn't like spam and this is my domain: t-online.de
