[wplug] Newbie question on graphical login

[Bill]

I'm confused....i thought the question was how to prevent the box from
booting into a graphical display?  The solutions I've seen have
addressed how to prevent X from running period.  On Red Hat, the
solution would actually be to run Xconfigurator and set it not to boot
into graphical mode.

I dont know much about Debian but I read that in 1999, Debian announced
its plans to release a Debian port of Xconfigurator and package it with
its distro.  If they followed thru on that, you should be able to run
that and solve your problem without having to disable X in any
particular level.

-b

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 20:59, Ivan Jager wrote:
> On 2002.11.11 10:57 Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> [...]
> > > 2) How can I make Debian boot into the command line? (I'm currently
> > > also researching this on my own... it must have something to do with
> > > the init scripts and run levels, but at my newbie stage I haven't
> > > been able to find and fix it yet.)
> > >
> > 
> > edit /etc/inittab and change
> > 
> > id:5:initdefault: (default runlevel is 5)
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > id:3:initdefault: (runlevel 3 - i.e. no login manager)
> 
> Actually, that is for RH... In Debian you just need to remove the links to the startup scripts from the current runlevel. You are probably already in runlevel 3 (check by typing runlevel). If xdm is starting then do something like:
> rm /etc/rc3.d/S99xdm
> for gdm:
> rm /etc/rc3.d/S99gdm
> and for kdm:
> rm /etc/rc3.d/S99kdm
> 
> 
> Ivan
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