How do I boot from an Ubuntu Live CD into shell instead of the gnome/kde/xfce desktop?
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How do I boot from an Ubuntu Live CD into shell instead of the gnome/kde/xfce desktop?
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That's not the purpose of a Live CD. For that you have the Alternate CD, which is tex-based, CLI
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You do have a CLI selection on boot.Originally Posted by mraza
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How?You do have a CLI selection on boot.
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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.
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