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    How to stop KDE from starting at boot time?

    With the HD install done, I don't want KDE (or any other window manager) to start at boot time.
    I just want the console. Or rather the virtual terminals at boot time.

    I want to start KDE only when I need it.

    How can this be done?

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    Welcome!
    That's right!
    That's linux!

    And here's the howto:
    edit /etc/inittab
    change
    Code:
    id:5:initdefault:
    to
    Code:
    id:3:initdefault:
    (close to the top).

    The inittab controls the very first processes, run by the system.
    By convention, runlevel 3 is for multiuser + networking, and runlevel 5 for X11.

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    Besides KDE, will this stop anything else from running?

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    No.
    Look at my post close to this http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12672 (how to make sshd start on boot).

    If you look at the differences between rc3.d and rc5.d, you will know exactly what will not start in runlevel 3.
    A correctly done installation will only start (additional to rc3.d) X11-related stuff in rc5.d.

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    I think you can type "knoppix 2" (without quotes) at the boot prompt to get run level 2, which, as I understand it, will keep you in the console.

    jd

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    That's right - it will put you to runlevel 2, which is probably not intended, since it lacks networking.
    For networking, you use 3.

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    With the hard disk installation, I do not see the boot: prompt anymore.
    At the beginning, all I see is the Debian logo with 3 options:
    Linux
    Linux(2.4)-1
    Linux(2.6-2


    And the "Linux" option is the default.
    How do I get to the boot: prompt?

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    My apologies. I compeletly missed that this was the Hdd install forum.

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    I use a text-menu, where I see
    Code:
    linux-2.6.7
    linux-2.4
    When I move the curser, the corresponding entry is shown below the menu too.
    After choosing the 2.6.7 (which is default although) I simply hit the '3' key, which makes the below-the-menu-entry

    linux-2.6.7 3


    I don't use a graphic boot-screen, but would expect the same functionality in a similar way there.

    If you don't have them, you may switch to a textmenu-lilo, or make two alternative boot-options with lilo.
    Code:
    linux-2.6.7-X11
    linux-2.6.7-console
    linux-2.4
    and use append="3" for console, append="5" for the -X11 - entry.

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    Thank you. Appreciate it.

    append="3" for console
    append="5" for the -X11

    Did the job.

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