Booting To Terminal

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 08:50:32 MST 2009


4 is generally not used, 3 maybe?


On 2/17/09, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> I prefer booting into runlevel 4, as it's still multiuser, just no GUI,
> whereas runlevel 2 is not.
>
> id:4:initdefault:
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Nathan England
> <nathan at paysonlinux.org>wrote:
>
>>  On Tuesday 17 February 2009 05:20:43 Tameek Henderson wrote:
>> > Hey guys,
>> >
>> > I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, and I would like the OS to boot to a
>> > Terminal instead of the GUI when I first turn it on.  Can someone let me
>> > knowthe file I need to edit to make that hapen.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> > Tameek Henderson
>> > 646.427.3205
>> > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/116/522
>> >
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>>
>> I would imagine you could edit
>>
>> /etc/inittab
>>
>> and change the line that says
>>
>> id:5:initdefault:
>>
>> to
>>
>> id:2:initdefault:
>>
>> Or something similar. above that it may give you a hint, such as mind
>> says:
>>
>> #  Runlevels:
>> #    0    Halt
>> #    1(S)       Single-user
>> #    2    Not used
>> #    3    Multi-user
>> #    4    Not used
>> #    5    X11
>> #    6    Reboot
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> nathan
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