[ale] Good text based live system

[Jim]

Paul Cartwright wrote:

>On Fri February 3 2006 7:08 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>I'm looking for a good text based (CLI) live CD.  I've got ubuntu
>>but I do not see a way to tell it to not run X.  Starting X takes
>>too long and I just need to get to a command prompt so I can do some
>>nice things. 
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>I know I read about making yer own live CD from a current distro.. 
>google... if you set it up for init 3, not init 5, or just booted it 
>and did the ALT-F1, then init 3, wouldn't that work??
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And can't you pass the run level at boot somehow? If not, boot single 
user and then init 3.

Jim.