disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.comwrote:
>
> I am now already in the middle of 13.04 installation.
>
> I tried recovery mode, I could enter to it, but I couldn't delete
> lightdm.override as it is read only when in recovery mode.
>
> I did not try 'update-grub' but I am not sure it would work since the
> change was not in grub. I don't know.
>
> I have the installation CD; just for the future - is it possible to
> boot with it with a RW permissions ? With fedora it is possible if I
> remember well also in "rescure mode" (from the disk itself) after
> chroot /mnt/sysimage.

Please don't top-post.

You can remount "/" with "mount -o remount,rw ...".

AFAIK the Ubuntu Live CD doesn't have a rescue mode like the Fedora's
but the Ubuntu Server CD has a chroot rescue mode.