how to boot into single user mode?

[Daryl Williams <daryl.williams@sharewave.com>]

folks,

after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0,
i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly
i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am
now unable to login at the console. i am also not able to
remote login because the console is secured against root
ogins and i did not create any user accounts.

i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user
mode and remove the xdm entries, however i am not sure
how to do this in linux... needless to say i am feeling very
stupid right about now. any help would be appreciated.

//daryl