NVidia Debian thread

[Ken Moffat]

Collins Richey wrote:
>
> It is slightly more convenient on those rare occasions when I won't to
> be able to startup in a fully active level with no Xserver just to be
> able to select runlevel 3 (the RH way), but there are ways of doing
> that on Debian as well.
>
>
>   

To disable gdm on boot in Debian, you can rename /etc/rc2.d/S21gdm to 
/etc/rc2.d/s21gdm (lowercase s). (for some reason this only gives me one 
console)

What I did was go to /etc/rc5.d (random choice) and do the above rename, 
then add a stanza to /boot/grub/menu.lst with a 5 at the end of the 
kernel line, thereby giving me the default X and single options,  plus a 
console option.