Re: X installation calamity solved. Thank you!
>
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
>
> As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
> able to get on. Even though I was supposedly root, however, I was told
> that all my files were read-only, so I could not change.
>
> Anyway, thanks again!
Hi,
Let me just say that the day before yesterday I had almost exactly the
same problem, and now I'll try to do this rescue procedure at home
(where my linux is). But, I think it`d be interesting to describe what
was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing
debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the
middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFree3.3 I
must stop X, so may I kill it?", and I answered, "Of course not!", and
then, after dselect complained and finished his work, I wanted to
restart dselect at the console, so I... EXITED FVWM2-95, which killed
X, which in turn prompted XDM to restart it, and finaly this caused my
monitor to start blinking... I was just wondering wether it was not a
comom mistake which should be warned about. The instructions mentioned
that one dselect run would be sufficient. OK, but then you must run text
mode dselect.
Thank you,
Marco
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