How do I boot into text mode, without X?

Good question! Perhaps when someone answers it they can include the solution
for Debian Woody as well.

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On a similar vein:
When one installs Red Hat 7.3, it asks which desktop manager one wants
to use, KDE or Gnome. I selected KDE, but now want to switch it to Gnome
so that when I type "startx" Gnome comes up. Right now I'm logging in as
root and going to gdm to be able to get the choice.
How do I change this at the startx level?
Thanks!
Mark

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:17, BoBB wrote:
> 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.
> >
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> 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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