Hi,--On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:32:17 AM -0400 David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote:
Joydeep Bakshi <joy12@vsnl.net> writes:I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i * at the time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian . how to get the same thing in Debian ?...what does it do? What effect are you actually after?
It comes in quite handy when you boot e.g. a machine which lost its network connection due to some network problem and which tries to lookup some hostnames on bootup or start a bind server. The DNS lookups might have some quite long timeouts and if you can skip this service instead it comes in quite handy. :-)
Harry