[Discuss] text-screen login?

[edwardp at linuxmail.org]

R. Luoma wrote:
> For some for the recent distros (e.g. ubuntu)
> I am having difficulty figuring out how to kill
> the GUI login and have the old-fashion
> text-terminal-like login screen.
>
> Does anyone have helpful advice
> on how to set up a freshly installed
> linux-based system to start with
> a text-screen login
>
> Thanks,

You could always add runlevel 3 to the boot parameters.