How do I boot into text mode, without X?

No you type whatever your linux kernel label is, if you normally boot "linux" you would boot "linux 3" but since your running debian even runlevel 2 has *dm in it, you have to boot into runlevel 1 and remove it from at least runlevel 2 and then boot into runlevel 2 for a text login, yuou can also remove it from everything except 5 and use 5 as a grpahical login as most distro's do. I never understood why deb did it the way it does.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:29:42 -0700
"Mark Berkwitt" <mberkwitt@cox.net> wrote:

> Thanks for trying to help, BoBB.
> Unfortunately, when I try "boot: level 3" I get the reply
> "Could not find kernel image: level"
>
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> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:57:31 -0700
> "Mark Berkwitt" <mberkwitt@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm searching through the index of my copy of "Running LINUX" 3rd Ed. and
> > can't find how to boot: into level 3 (I think that's right) thus avoiding
> X.
>
> Depends on your distro, most of the "big" distro's stick to having run level
> 5 as the graphic login runlevel. what you would want to do at the lilo
> prompt is type 'linux 3'(or whatever the label is for your kernel) to boot
> to runlevel 3. If you want to boot into run level 3 by default edit
> /etc/inittab look for a like like this
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> and change 5 to 3. Im not to sure on the facts but i heard you shouldn't
> change anything else in this file unless you know exactly what your doing.
> maybee someone more experienced can put in thier $.02 :)
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