[Gllug] Debian: Laptop.

[Jack Bertram]

* Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> [030915 15:40]:
> 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)
> > 
>    Have a look at man init, I think you need a file called /etc/inittab

Well, yes, but what this file does is to define runlevels which you
can then switch between at boot.

If Debian doesn't have runlevels, then how do you do this?

jack

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