[Q] Debain 3.0 Startup....

[Donovan J. Edye]

A,

Appreciate the help (& others). Not sure I understand all of this yet, but I
will be back with more questions no doubt. I do however have 2 immediate
follow up questions:

- Does anyone know of a good (nice GUI etc. - I use PowerTerm as my Win32
telnet client) Win32 SSH client?
- I use CygWin Xfree server to get into my Debian 3.0 box. What do I need to
have installed on it for this to work? (Put another way. What can I
uninstall)

TIA

-- D
PS. Thanks also A for your help on the NetInstall

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]  On
Behalf Of Alex Satrapa
Sent:	Saturday, 17 August 2002 10:55
To:	d.edye at bigfoot.com
Cc:	Linux List
Subject:	Re: [Q] Debain 3.0 Startup....

On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 09:14, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> How do I stop booting into the graphics mode and purely into a text mode.

First, to get to a text console press "Alt+Ctrl+Fn" to get you to
virtual console n (eg: Alt+Ctrl+F1 to get to vc 1).

Log in as root.

Before you go any further, install ssh.  Do not use telnetd - even on
your local network, you don't want puppets of the USA Government - or
ex-girlfriends - snarfing your highly sensitive passwords.

The rest of these instructions can be done via the console or via remote
login.

Determine what you're using that starts the X Windows System - usually
it will be xdm, wdm or gdm (the X Windows System Display Manager, the
WINGs Display Manager, or the Gnome Display Manager) - you'll find
scripts for each in the /etc/init.d folder

For each of the *dm scripts, you'll need to do something like:

  update-rc.d xdm stop 99 2 3 4 5 .

Don't modify the /etc/rc?.d links by hand.

Once you've got the X Windows System settings working correctly (testing
my manually running /etc/init.d/xdm start), you can restore the init
scripts by doing something like:

  update-rc.d xdm start 99 2 3 4 5 .

Of course if you don't plan on adjusting the X Windows System settings
to run on your monitor, and just want a text console on that machine,
you could just remove xdm and friends:

  apt-get remove xdm wdm gdm ... etc

HTH
HAND
Alex