Harry Putnam said: > Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few > rinkles. > 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. > > Currently, I get popped right into X. > I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level > /etc/inittab But I see nothing in there that looks likely. > > In fact it claims the default is runlevel 2. Or is runlevel 2 X. I > don't think so. > > In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5 > which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console > login. > > Where is this choice made on debian?
Remove xdm, gdm or kdm. If any of these are installed, they will dump you into X unless you're in single-user mode. apt-get remove gdm (or kdm or xdm if you have either of those instead) -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
