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Hello, I'm quiet new to linux, but have some little experience with Fedora & Suse. I just installed Debian 3.1 Sarge with only the Desktop Enviroment packages. When I boot ...
  1. 10-23-2005 #1
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    Booting in textmode [Debian 3.1 Sarge] - id:2:initdefault

    Hello,

    I'm quiet new to linux, but have some little experience with Fedora & Suse.
    I just installed Debian 3.1 Sarge with only the Desktop Enviroment packages.

    When I boot my PC it always enters the graphical login manager. I would like to start in textmode (because I want to install the NVIDIA-drivers for example).
    When I check /etc/inittab it says "id:2:initdefault". Normally you change it to id:3:initdefault and it's oke, but this doesn't work.
    When I rename /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm it boots in textmode, but it's not the "nice way" to do this. But when I do "startx" GNOME starts (I prefer KDE), when I do "startkde" I got an error.

    Anyone has an idea how to change this in a proper way? Do I need to remove the gdm-package or something?

    Greetings,
    l:x
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    Why don't you use the command console, i mean the terminal where you can do all the command line stuff. You can even install KDE through that! Once you install KDE & you restart the pc during login you can login through KDE or GNOME session or you can make KDE as your default login.
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    Get into /etc/init.d and do the editing what ever you want-basically you have to get rid of GDM which is the Gnome desktop login.
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    On bootup select 'recovery mode'...that gives you the option of staying in text mode !
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    init3.d you can remove what you dont want to start then change your runlevel to 3. i just renamed the s99gdm on my box. i see nothing wrong with that. as for starting into kde with startx check out .xinitrc file (in ~). basically, whatever commands you put in there will execute when x starts.
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    Infoseeker: Indeed, that's a nice way of getting in text mode... Stupid of me not to see that option :s

    DoctorDan: I've found a nice article explaining the Run Level-stuff (for newbies like me) => http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/212
    Also, I'll look further for some info concerning the .xinitrc file.

    Thank you all!!
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