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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
to
(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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