New Distro and a Howto question

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Sean Roe wrote:

> But I have a stupid question. After I installed it, it automagically
> starts up in X. While this would be fine for some, I don't want to
> start X unless I need it. I rememeber something about the inittab and
> runlevels. Currently it is set to default to 2. How do I get it to
> start with out X running?

I know everyone is giving all these great ideas on how to get it to not
start up in X... but here is my favorite method:

# apt-get remove xdm

(feel free to substitute 'gdm' or 'kdm' for 'xdm', depending on which
display manager is being used)