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I'm very new to Linux and I want to play around on an old computer that I have. What I want to get is a distro that will install just the terminal part so that i can play around with that and learn the commands (Also the computer I'm going to be using is old and it would be easier to run something like that than a gui). In short, is there a Linux distro without the gui? thanks for the help
Brandon
You can disable the gui being started at boot up by changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5. You can then start X by logging into the terminal and doing "startx".
Originally posted by brandon14u2 How do I disable the gui from the command line. How do I enable it once I do as well.
Most installers offer the option not to start the GUI, even though it's installed.
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Originally posted by reddazz You can disable the gui being started at boot up by changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5. You can then start X by logging into the terminal and doing "startx".
From 5 to 3, I assume.
3 usually is no-gui, 5 usually with-gui. But this depends on distribution (seem to remember that Ubuntu uses different ones (3 and 4?))
Last edited by Wim Sturkenboom; 10-07-2005 at 04:11 AM.
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