Mine shows:
id:2:initdefault:

But that triggered my memory.  I looked in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d and
they were the same.  But I noticed in there gdm and xdm so I removed the
symlinks to their /etc/init.d files.  That should do the trick.

-Rob

> On 20030317.2104, Graham Forest said ...
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:58:21 -0800
> Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Somehow my Debian system got set up to install X when I start up.  Since
> > I have an Nvidia graphics card and need to insert the nvidia module
> > before X starts, the X on startup breaks.  I don't particularly like
> > starting in X anyway.  How do I disable it and boot to the command
> > prompt?
> <snip>
> 
> Whip open /etc/inittab, and find a line similar to this:
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> Yours will probably have 5 instead of three (it depends on the distro), but text 
> boot on most systems is three, so make the line like this:
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> Graham


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