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From: Fabio 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: how to boot without X? (more generally, about runlevels)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:38:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi all,

I switched to ubuntu (6.06) after many years of redhat/mandrake/mandriva
distributions.

My question is the following. On my old systems, usually runlevels had the
following meaning:
1: single user mode (failsafe)
2: multiuser without network
3: full system without X
4: free
5: full system with X
6: halt

So, if usually I started in 5 and once, for some reason, I wanted to start
without X, it was enough to start in runlevel 3.

On the other hand, in ubuntu all runlevel from 2 to 5 are set to the same
values. 
So how can I choose at boot time to start without X?
Moreover, I used lilo. In grub, how do I choose the runlevel?

Thank you for your attention

Fabio
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