Newbie Story (was) Re: Boot probblem with xdm
Yep, another case of not reading far enough. I was still not proficient at
the install so I started over again before I found this out which was just
as well because my current installation is much cleaner. I discovered how
to download with my 56K windmodem to harddisk and install using dselect so
speeding it up keeps me from getting so lost now in the packs. I took a
14.4K modem out of my 386 to use temporarily on this box, which by the way
works fine with my winmodem installed. Each OS does not see the others modem.
COMMENTS: I used DragonLinux (UMDOS)for a couple of months to get the feel
for Linux and after looking around and trying a couple of flavors settled
on Debian because of the GNU as well as the ease of accessing the packages
which in hindsight was a great decision. I have been on vacation so the
normal person doing this some on the weekend and evening could probably do
this in a week and a few hours over a couple of weekends using the download
method but I started last Friday night and this morning have a pretty
stable Debian installation with X-windows. THis includes learning the
system and the lingo at the same time. I prefer to run as a server but
need to learn the workstation aspect for some future jobs. I imagine with
the CD it would be a pretty painless process. A week ago if you told me
that I would be whacking space off my windows partition to make more room
for Linux I wouldnt have believed it. I dont guess two calls to the mail
list for install help was too bad so thanks all for the help.
New GNU/Penguinpowered convertee
Robert
At 09:48 AM 5/26/99 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
>On Wed, 26 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote:
><...>
>> > Is there a way to stop the boot process before xdm starts?
>> > If not I guess I will have to reinstall.
>> >
>> > Im on the digest and not on USER so make sure Im cc:'d.
>> > Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> you can press <Control>+<ALT>+<F2> to switch from X to the console.
>> Press <Alt>+<F7> to go back.
>
>You can also use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to shut down X
>
>When you are back at a text console:
> "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" will stop xdm
> "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm" will remove the link that causes xdm to start up
> (assumes your default runlevel is still "2")
>
>There should be no need to reinstall unless crucial files have been
>lost; and even then it may be best to use "dpkg -x" to unpack the .deb
>and get at just the file(s) you need, instead of replacing everything
>(including any tweaking you may have done and want to keep).
>
>
>- Bruce
>
>
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