On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:44, Christian wrote: > Hello all, > Where can I enter the init 3 to just start in text console on Debian? Not > to have the gnome logon screen. Many thanks, > Christian At boot prompt, you can enter "linux 3". The "Debian" way to permanently prevent an X desktop from starting at boot is do the following command (as root): update-rc.d -f ?dm remove ; update-rc.d ?dm stop 99 1 2 3 4 5 6 . For ?, substitute g for the Gnome Desktop Manager, k for the KDE Desktop Manager, x for the X11 Desktop manager, etc. Example: update-rc.d -f gdm remove ; update-rc.d gdm stop 99 1 2 3 4 5 6 . Note period at the end. You probably have to disable all of them. The update-rc.d utility manages the symlinks in the rcN.d directories. Once you've disabled automatic start of X at boot, you can still manually start the desktop by entering startx BTW, for answers to these and other Debian questions, the Debian Reference is a good source. apt-get install debian-reference-en lynx /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html I go the answer to your question in section 8.1.4. -- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
