New Debian installation and confused.

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

If I'm not mistaken, Debian does not differentiate among run levels 2
through 5. They are all the same out of the box. The user is welcome to
fashion them differently if he wishes, but unless he does so, 2 is the
same as any other run level (except of course 0, 1, or 6.

Or has that changed with etch? 

Chuck


On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:56:33AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Kenny, or anyone else who knows, how is it that the default run level
> in /etc/inittab was still 2, but gdm/kdm/xdm started up anyway? I
> thought that run level 2 meant that the system was supposed to boot
> into text mode, and that the gui login managers weren't supposed to
> start up.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 05:05:04AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > First question, do you plan to use Gnome?
> > 
> > If not, you can remove some packages and get the system back to a text login.
> > 
> > You need to remove the package called the display manager.  It is probably gdm, but it might also be xdm or kdm.
> > 
> > Try typing:
> > 
> > apt-get remove gdm 
> > 
> > as root.  If it succeeds, the next time you boot you will be at tty1 in text mode.
> > If it fails, try running it with xdm or kdm.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> >           Kenny
> > 
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