[SATLUG] Booting Kubuntu 6.10 into Command Line

[Ernest de Leon]

you could use CTRL+ALT+F1 to go to another term and do what CLI you need
there, then
use CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back to your X session and use CTRL+ALT+BKSP to kill X
(which will automatically restart)

Ernest

On 4/5/07, Ed Coates <edcoates at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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# Ernest De Leon

"If Microsoft is 'flexible' it explains how their head got where it is."