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Author: Ryan Rix
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To: nathan, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Booting To Terminal
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 <>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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