On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:10:58AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >> Pigeon wrote: > >> > Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a > >> > console. > >> > >> Tried that, no dice. So i re-installed. I'm so impatient, eh? > > > > Ack, my apologies - I should have mentioned that there's a shell > > option on the install disk from which you could have disabled your xdm > > login. Go as if to install; on the screen with the scrollable menu > > that the installation process walks you through, scroll down the menu > > and somewhere near the bottom you'll find "Execute a Shell". So you > > just go straight to that without doing any installing, and you can > > then mount your HDs by hand and edit the init scripts or whatever. > > Tried that too. But when I tried to mount / the files from /etc were > missing so I couldn't reconfigure it to not start xdm. I guess it thought > that the CD's files were etc? I'm not sure, but I did try that route. Further to my previous reply on this subject: note that the message you get when you Execute the Shell, about your root filesystem being mounted on /target, is not true in the general case. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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