Need help with inittab

[webhostage]

Well I am sure most of you have talked about it many times.

I am using Debian and have install gnome. Right now my box boots up in the graphical format. And I would rather have it start in command line seems to be faster, plus who needs a gui all the time. From what I remember all I have to do is change the id from 5 to 3 in /etc/inittab

Well I have done that and rebooted, and it still boots up in gnome mode!

Is there anything else that I have to do?

This is what my default looks like
id:3:initdefault:

Thanks for your help.
webhostage

[joepotter]

Well I am sure most of you have talked about it many times.

I am using Debian and have install gnome. Right now my box boots up in the graphical format. And I would rather have it start in command line seems to be faster, plus who needs a gui all the time. From what I remember all I have to do is change the id from 5 to 3 in /etc/inittab

Well I have done that and rebooted, and it still boots up in gnome mode!

Is there anything else that I have to do?

This is what my default looks like
id:3:initdefault:

Thanks for your help.
webhostage

Well, if you have a good connection (to put it back someday, perhaps) you could get rid of those things you do not need.

For example:

apt-get remove --purge kdm gdm xdm

Now the box will come up in text mode. If you ever decide that typing "startx" is too big a chore, then

apt-get install gdm

will get you back to a GUI login screen.



Regards, Joe

[phaeton]

From what I can tell, runlevels 2-5 are all the same in Debian. You can edit the runlevel to not start gdm/kdm/xdm and that should stop you from booting into a GUI. I'm pretty new to linux, so I hope I'm not steering you wrong here. I use the SysV-Init Editor program to make the changes I need.