[Gllug] Debian: Laptop.

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 15 14:34:19 UTC 2003


On Mon 15 Sep, Tethys wrote:
> 
> 
> "Martin A. Brooks" writes:
> 
> >On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:06, Tethys wrote:
> >> So under Debian, how do you make that decision at boot time? I.e., if my
> >> system automatically starts gdm at boot, and I want to boot into a text
> >> only mode but with all the other services up and running, how would I go
> >> about that?
> >
> >See my last mail on this topic.
> 
> Which one? The only thing I can see is your suggestion to echo false
> into /etc/X11/default-display-manager, which obviously can't be done
> at boot time (unless you've preprepared an initrd that does it, but
> that's far too clumsy to be even vaguely sensible)
> 
> Tet
> 
> 
   Have a look at man init, I think you need a file called /etc/inittab

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Chris Bell


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