On Wed, 26 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote: <...> > > Is there a way to stop the boot process before xdm starts? > > If not I guess I will have to reinstall. > > > > Im on the digest and not on USER so make sure Im cc:'d. > > Thanks in advance. > > Hi Robert, > > you can press <Control>+<ALT>+<F2> to switch from X to the console. > Press <Alt>+<F7> to go back.
You can also use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to shut down X When you are back at a text console: "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" will stop xdm "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm" will remove the link that causes xdm to start up (assumes your default runlevel is still "2") There should be no need to reinstall unless crucial files have been lost; and even then it may be best to use "dpkg -x" to unpack the .deb and get at just the file(s) you need, instead of replacing everything (including any tweaking you may have done and want to keep). - Bruce