On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:36:36PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote:
| I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving me a bit crazy...the
| default install of debian sends me straight to X, rather than a command
| line. What do I need to do to boot up to just a plain old prompt?
|
| In addition, once I am in X, I can't figure out how to get out of it. Wm's
| "exit" as well as Ctrl+Alt+backspace just sends me to an X user login
| prompt.
Yes, if you logout of X you go back to the display manager ([xgk]dm).
If you press Alt-Ctrl-F[1-6] you can switch to a Virtual Console.
There are 6 of them with a default set up. If you want to get back to
X, press Alt-Ctrl-F7.
If you don't want the display manager to run at startup, see
'man update-rc' for the Debian Way of doing it. I simply get into the
guts myself and run (as root)
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm /etc/rc2.d/notS99gdm
to stop gdm from running (I use gdm instead of xdm or kdm) and
mv /etc/rc2.d/notS99gdm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm
to make it run at boot time again.
HTH,
-D
