Re: Ommision on the User's Guide
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:16:22PM -0500, David D.W. Downey wrote:
> I run the #Debian channel on EFNet and I've had several users come in
> asking how to boot into single user mode.
OK.
> Normally I refer users to docs since there's no need for the ops to
> regurgitate what is already written simply because users don't want to
> read.
Yep.
> However, I've found a valid complaint from users. In the Tutorial,
> there is nothing that covers hw to boot into different runlevels from
> the boot prompt. I've searched through all the docs at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ and found only allusions to the
> process but nothing concrete and defined.
Are not these good enough?
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-no-x-start
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-bootprompt
Usually user do this for killing X.
> Would it be possible to add a section covering this? Either in the
> Debian Tutorial or the User's Guide.
This is in "Debian Reference". The new & best one :-)
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