[GTALUG] Beginner Debian Question(s)

[Howard Gibson]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:36:01 -0500
Peter King <peter.king at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> This system image boots into an LXDE environment, with no option to boot to
> the console (i.e. the CLI without all the GUI stuff).  I have no idea how
> to get it to boot to the console -- it doesn't seem to use GRUB(2) as the
> bootloader, so there is no menu option at boot.  I tried to use sudo to get
> rid of lightdm, but was told that I'm not in the sudoers group, even after
> changing my user privileges to "Administrator".  Naturally, I don't have a
> root password.

Peter,

   Did you try editing /etc/inittab?  You should see the lines...

# Default runlevel.  (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

   Change the 4 to a 3.

   The last time I played with Slackware, I changed the 3 to a 4.

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