boot into command line debian squeeze
 

ok so ive reinstalled squeeze, this time with the gui installed.

but now i want to set it up so that instead of booting into the gui login screen, i boot into the command line and do everything from there.

so far ive tried

update-rc.d -f gdm remove
update-rc.d -f kdm remove
update-rc.d -f xdm remove

no errors,

but it still boots up into the log in screen. is this an old method that doesnt work for squeeze?

thanks for any help

First off what DE did you install and what dm?

Why not just "apt-get remove <somedm>"?

There really should not be more than one installed.

it came with gnome, i added lxde and i3. if i delete them all and reinstall the one or two i want, will it solve the problem?

One way that I have done it; as root, go into '/etc/rc2.d', 'mv S21gdm oldS21gdm', save the file.
Next time you boot up, it should start with all services, except gdm will not be started.

Hope that helps you do what you want.

Edit
and set the runlevel to 3
reboot

Kind regards

Will not work as runlevels 2-5 are the same on Debian.

Debian and Ubuntu Linux Run Levels - http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-an...un-levels.html

Howto Boot debian in text mode instead of graphical mode (GUI) - http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-boo...-mode-gui.html

How to disable X or GUI on boot in Debian - http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-di...in-debian.html

thanks for all of the responses

i ended up trying:

update-rc.d -f gdm3 remove
update-rc.d -f wdm remove

this solved it

For others who might light on this thread, installing sysv-rc-conf allows you to turn services on and off for various runlevels. It's in the repos.

That was what I used to be able to boot to the CLI without removing the GDM in Debian.

Edit your grub.cfg in /boot/grub/grun.cfg
 

Just add "text" at the end of the line "### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###" of your grub.cfg

mine read:

/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae root=/dev/mapper/idebian-root ro quiet text