| timClicks | i'm converting an old laptop into something of a server | 00:12 |
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| timClicks | how do I log into a shell? e.g. sans ubuntu-desktop | 00:13 |
| Atamira | merry christmas all | 00:20 |
| ojwb | timClicks: Alt-F1 to F6 should give you a login prompt | 00:39 |
| timClicks | ojwb: noted, but I want to avoid the memory overhead | 00:39 |
| ojwb | modern ubuntu comes up on VT7 it seems, even if you don't have X running | 00:39 |
| ojwb | timClicks: um, memory overhead? | 00:39 |
| timClicks | am following http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-boot-debian-in-text-mode-instead-of-graphical-mode-gui.html | 00:40 |
| timClicks | see how things go | 00:40 |
| ojwb | it's a key press | 00:40 |
| ojwb | there's not a lot of memory overhead | 00:40 |
| timClicks | oh.. from gdm/lightdm? | 00:40 |
| ojwb | the VTs are there anyway, Alt+Fkey just switches between them | 00:40 |
| ojwb | no, it's nothing to do with X | 00:40 |
| timClicks | sweet :) | 00:41 |
| timClicks | sorted | 00:41 |
| ojwb | you can tell it to come up on VT1, let me just check | 00:41 |
| ojwb | sudo sed -i '/^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=/ s/\<splash\>//;/^#GRUB_TERMINAL=console/ s/#//' /etc/default/grub | 00:42 |
| ojwb | the first part turns off the splash option, and that causes it to come up on VT1 | 00:43 |
| ojwb | the second part give you the text console rather than a text console in graphics mode | 00:43 |
| ojwb | you may or may not want the second part - I find it's much more responsive when connecting to remote VMs using virt-manager | 00:44 |
| ojwb | oh, and: sudo update-grub | 00:44 |
| ojwb | grub is the default boot manager | 00:44 |
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