[SATLUG] Booting Kubuntu 6.10 into Command Line

[Ed Coates]

On 4/5/07, Jim Wells <jfw5cpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get Kubuntu to boot into Command Line mode but am having
> no luck whatsover.  I looked first for /etc/inittab but in Kubuntu it
> doesn't exist.  I need to install the NVIDIA driver but it won't install
> because X is running.
>
> Any ideas?  I've used Google & found several suggestions but they don't
> seem to work for me.
>
> Jim
Could try either booting into X, opening up an Xterm and typing init
3.  That should take you to the command line.

One other possibility is to boot into init 3 when grub comes up.

Ed