On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 08:20:44PM -0700, Dan Lawrence wrote: > On 16 May 2004, you wrote in linux.debian.user: > > You're going to have to boot off the CD to do the test. Once you > > do that, Knoppix will try to boot into its graphical environment > > anyway. There's no way to use a shell from it without booting. > > Sure you can. Just give the command "knoppix 2" at the boot prompt > and knoppix will not start X. You can also boot into a 2.6.x kernel > this way (the default is 2.4.x).
Um, that would be "booting". I didn't say you couldn't boot to a shell, I said you had to reboot the computer in Knoppix to use the Knoppix shell commands. > > You could suppress the graphical environment, but why? ... and this quote indicates that I knew perfectly well you could not start X, making your response very puzzling. My point was that, if one is testing a computer to see if it supports Linux, one might want a comprehensive test such as is produced by a full Knoppix boot. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]