I have just finished installing Debian 3.0 on a i386 box. I went through the installation provided on the Debian site. After installing samba and making changes to the smb.conf file I rebooted and now the system comes up into a GUI. The GUI just has an xconsole window. I have tried to close the GUI by exiting and clicking on "yes, really quit". I am a newbie to linux, but I don't think I changed anything related to the GUI. I am trying to set this box up as a server and don't want a GUI, just the command line. Can someone help me? Is there a key stroke and I can hit to stop it or do I need to edit a config file somewhere.

Thanks for any help
Wayne

I'm not exactly sure of what you mean by "GUI".

However, I assume the case is that the XDM starts without asking your permission and that this annoys you.

If this is the case, there are several easy ways to fix this.

"I am trying to set this box up as a server and don't want a GUI" -- this should be an easy task to accomplish.

Take a look into /etc/rc2.d/ and check if there are entries like "S99xdm" or "S99kdm" or "S99gdm":

# update-rc.d -f xdm remove

is the command to remove all references to xdm.

That should give you the general idea. There are several other threads that discuss the same issue.

remove all xfree related stuff and it will remove all gui stuff

I think mrcheeks has the right approach. Just launch aptitude and remove x-window-system and xserver-xfree86 and all the other packages of the similar kind. Apparently you don't need them.

Thanks guys, using aptitude I was able to remove the x-windows system.

Good to hear the solution worked for you

This linux stuff ROCKS!!!! Goodbye MS.