Re: Not a speed reader.

[David Palmer <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>]

On Monday 15 September 2003 22:40, Pim Bliek wrote:
> Even easier is to read it afterwards.
>
> Try:
> 'dmesg | less'
> or:
> 'less /var/log/kern.log'
>
> Both ways give you lots of info what happened during bootup and enables
> you grep'ing for stuff as well of course :).
>
> Pim
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:47, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:27:30PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
> > > I'm experimenting on my Libranet setup, and I've got things in a bit of
> > > a mess.
> > > Never mind it matches the rest of the house.
> > > When I was in my Windows days, there was an obscure setting that would
> > > slow down the start up graphics to a pace that you had time to read
> > > them. Is there an equivalent mechanism in Debian?
> >
> > You can hit Ctrl-S as messages are scrolling up the screen to pause
> > them. Hit Ctrl-Q to resume when you're ready.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


Thanks for that, Pim and Colin.
Should give me plenty to play with.
Now I'm almost too scared to look.
Regards,

David.