On Wednesday 20 November 2002 16:08, you wrote: Another possibilty could have been to interactively boot the rc3.d-scripts (when it says "Press I for interactive startup" or something) and skip the Internet-stuff
Bob. > Damn, Thank you so much. I'm looking at my new Mandrake Workstation. > > I have to learn about this stuff from the CLI. Where is a good place > to start? I have no mentor that is willing to start from scratch. > Will a dummies book teach CLI step by step? > > >On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:01:18PM -0500, Barry Hertzberg wrote: > >> Ben, I'm not sure where you wanted me to type in chkconfig --del > >> internet (with 2 dashes like that??) But i tried at the boot up and I > >> tried where it was freezing on me, to no avail. > > > >Best way to do it is to do this: > >Boot off the install CD. > >At the boot prompt type "rescue" > >If it asks you want to "install" off the CDROM (you're not really > >installing but the dialogs are written like you are). > >After the system boots up you'll get a shell. > >Type "chroot /mnt" > >Then "chkconfig --del internet" > >Then "exit" > >Then "reboot" > > > >Take the CD out of the drive and it ought to get past the whole checking > >internet connections stuff... > > > >-- > >Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >http://ben.reser.org > > > >"If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard > >enough." - Jim Nichols
