[Gllug] Debian: Laptop.

[Peter Childs]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Chris Bell wrote:

> 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
> 
>

	Hmm Under Redhat you tell inittab to go to runlevel 3 this does 
not work in Debain thats the problem! I've tried 3,4 and 5, and 
Ctrl-Alt-backspace will not work becaus the X session is close and a new 
one opened...
	On every other distribution "telinit 3" is multiuser text only. 
which is nice on a server when you only want xdm running sumtimes ie..
"telinit 5" 

Peter Childs 


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