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Deranged

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,21:12

I installed dsl to my hard drive and when I try and select either runlevel 2 or 3 it still boots to the gui. How can I prevent this as I don't want the gui to load.

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,22:07

What command are you typing? It's not "runlevel 2," just type "dsl 2" if you wish to enter run level 2.

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,22:10

I tried init 2 and I also tried changing it in inittab when I type runlevel it shows runlevel 2

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Posted: Aug. 29 2005,08:25

anyone got an answer? I don't even need or want the gui, is it possible to uninstall it? it's just going to be a server and no matter what runlevel it is in it loads X. I would be willing to reinstall if that's what it takes to get only a command prompt. Also lilo automatically loads linux immediately so I can't type in dsl 2 or single or whatever.

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Posted: Aug. 29 2005,14:31

The default runlevel (5) is actually text mode, but starts X when user dsl logs in. Runlevel 2 is a single-user level which logs in root on all ttys.

A quick way to prevent X from starting in runlevel5 is to remove "startx" from /home/dsl/.bash_profile.

I wrote a little piece about setting up DSL in the "typical" Linux way here:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=7936

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