installing and selecting runlevel 3?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Gene C. wrote:

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> When you boot up and get the grub prompt to boot the system, type "e".  This 
> will bring up a screen with all of the grub lines in it.  Position (arrow 
> keys) to the "kernel" line and type "e".  You will now be presented with the 
> "kernel" line which you can edit.  Add "nogui 3" (I usually place this 
> between "ro" and "root=".  Be sure to leave a space between parameters.  This 
> are the command line parameters which are passed to /sbin/init and will bring 
> the system up in runlevel 3.  Not that firstboot will still run in gui mode 
> by starting X.

i'm confused -- what's the distinction between adding "3" and "nogui"?
run level 3 *means* not to start X already.  is "nogui" related to
how firstboot runs?

rday