Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[Pete Holsberg]

James Takac keyed the following on 6/20/2007 9:48 AM:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 23:09:11 Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Well, if he just wants to not worry about loggin into Xwindows, then he can 
> just hit CTRL ALT F1 at the login prompt and end up in a console. aybe that 
> what he's after?
Is there any way to control the resolution of that "console"?


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Pete Holsberg
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