need to boot to cli

[bwilson1]

I just installed 9.10 server and need to use a gui so I installed ubuntu desktop. The need is because I just starting out in linux and the gui helps sometimes. Anyway I prefer to boot to the cli and no matter what I do I cannot get it to boot to the cli. I tried removing gdm and then start gui if I need it by running startx and removing gdm does not work like it did in previous versions. I had 9.04 installed and I saw somewhere where it talked about putting startx and something else in a file. For the life of me I cannot remember what I did or to which file it was.

So in recap I am looking for a tried and tested way of always automatically booting to the cli even though i have ubuntu desktop installed. It seems as if 9.10 has changed things yet again. If not then I a dumb*** and probably missing something obvious. lol I must have reinstalled the server ten times today. Im new and as clueless as can be but so far having a blast and sure as heck glad windows has gone bye bye.

Please if you can be specific in your replies. I spend a lot of time reading various posts here and for a newb I get blown away at some of the answers being way over my understanding at least at this point

thanks

[daark.child]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

When you have logged into the system, enter the commands below in a terminal

sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

That should stop GDM from starting up and you should be able to boot into the CLI.

[mrrangerman]

The /etc/inittab is where you would edit to set up run levels at boot, but Ubuntu for what ever reason has changed the way init works.

The file you need to edit now is located in /etc/event.d/rc-default