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Disable Aqua - new and improved for 10.2.x!
Authored by: Usr bin Login on May 10, '03 06:44:06AM
While this works perfectly for OS X 10.1.x, it falls flat in Jaguar 'cause /etc/rc has changed drastically.

On the plus side, it's even easier to hack now.

As root, jump to the end of /etc/rc. You should see this line:

SystemStarter -g ${VerboseFlag} ${SafeBoot}

That -g is where the magic is (man SystemStarter for details). Remove the '-g', write, quit and reboot (or kill init if that's your style).

As in the initial hint I also edited /etc/ttys as above. I dunno if it is critical in 10.2 also, but it hasn't hurt anything, and [sheepish] I'm too lazy to test further - hey it works, right? [/sheepish]

For bonus BOfH points, save the originals of /etc/rc and /etc/ttys as /etc/rc.aqua and /etc/ttys.aqua and the edits as /etc/rc.cons and /etc/ttys.cons, then write a shell script to automagically toggle between pure console and gui goodness.

Usr bin Login

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