Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:22:21 -0700
> Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to start ubuntu feisty faun and have it run at run level 3
>> rather than starting on the X server. Is there a way to have it start at
>> run level 3.
> 
> On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, X runs in runlevel 2 , and
> there is no distinction between this and running without X.

I'm not sure if Peter means what I was going to say...

In Ubuntu (or Debian) X runs in runlevels 2, 3, 4 & 5, so simply changing to
runlevel 3 won't do what you want.
-- 
derek