Boot Ubuntu Live CD into Shell

[mraza]

How do I boot from an Ubuntu Live CD into shell instead of the gnome/kde/xfce desktop?

[Pumalite]

That's not the purpose of a Live CD. For that you have the Alternate CD, which is tex-based, CLI

[cdtech]

How do I boot from an Ubuntu Live CD into shell instead of the gnome/kde/xfce desktop?

You do have a CLI selection on boot.

[TwoWordz]

You do have a CLI selection on boot.

How?

[dilaudid]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions - First press Esc to stop the live cd booting, then you get the options screen - press F6 to edit the grub command line. Add "text" to the end to disable gdm (disable the gnome desktop). Still takes a while to boot though.