On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > greeted with a graphical login. > > How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if > and only if I want to start X? All of the runlevels except 1 seem to > have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the xdm in the > corresponding rc.x directory?
The default runlevel is "2". So you can: $ rm /etc/rc2.d/S??xdm (if you have a different default set, adjust accordingly) or to remove xdm completely $ apt-get remove xdm -- Eric G. Miller <[email protected]>
