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. Are you getting confused about mounting devices? / is already mounted when you Execute the Shell, but it's a / specific to the install disk. You can't mount your normal hard-drive / as / without causing some major confusion (if at all... I've never tried it :-) ) The install disk does provide you with mount points on which you can mount hard drives - the standard /mnt, and /target. If I take a guess, for the sake of providing an example, that your original setup was partitioned as: /dev/hda1 swap /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /home then you would do mount /dev/hda2 /mnt ls /mnt/etc (check: should show the normal contents of /etc on your HD) chmod a-x /mnt/etc/init.d/xdm (knock out xdm) > I'm now getting very close to being back. I've installed wireless, nvidia > drivers and am just doing sound. The rest (hopefully) will be software > stuff like cups. I've used my old config files to build the kernel and am > hoping that parallel printing is still set up the way I think it ought to > be. I'd say I've done VERY well though. The first time through it took me > *months* to get as far as I've gotten in one day. I understand the way > things work and I'm very good at taking notes. There were still a few > things that I bashed at randomly until they worked, but I also think I > understand why they worked in the end. > > yay me! :) Rock on! :-) If you don't mind me saying so it seems from your posts that you know a lot about most things and are good at experimenting and remembering what you learn, but if your knowledge is viewed as a wooden footbridge there are occasional planks missing through which your foot unexpectedly plunges as you walk across... targeting answers to your questions is an interesting exercise in cutting to shape a replacement plank without accidentally making a plank in the shape of one of the neighbouring planks which is not in fact missing. If you see what I mean... :-) -- 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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