Booting to the command line without X-windows

[Zach]

This varies from distro to distro, but for Ubuntu, it's pretty
straightforward.  The gdm initscript starts up the gdm login manager
attached to tty 7.  If you don't want X, you just need to disable the
gdm startup script.

The best way to do this is with the update-rc.d utility.
update-rc.d gdm remove
It will complain that you're trying to remove the symlinks in the
rc<runlevel>.d directories when the init script still exists.  you
have to use the -f option to force.  Don't worry though, it will leave
the init script intact, so you can use update-rc.d again later to
re-enable it.

On 11/16/05, John W Redelfs <jredelfs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because of all the Ubuntu hype, I'm coming back to Linux after several
> years away from it, and I have forgotten a lot.  Can anybody tell me
> how I should change my setup so that it boots from the boot loader to
> a console login without X-windows and Gnome?  I prefer starting out on
> the command line, and changing to a GUI only when I want one.
>
> Alternatively, could someone tell me how to drop from the Gnome
> desktop to the command line without X-windows.  Using sudo in a
> terminal window from Gnome to install nVidia drivers doesn't work
> because I need to do it without X-windows running.
>
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