Yep, another case of not reading far enough. I was still not proficient at the install so I started over again before I found this out which was just as well because my current installation is much cleaner. I discovered how to download with my 56K windmodem to harddisk and install using dselect so speeding it up keeps me from getting so lost now in the packs. I took a 14.4K modem out of my 386 to use temporarily on this box, which by the way works fine with my winmodem installed. Each OS does not see the others modem. COMMENTS: I used DragonLinux (UMDOS)for a couple of months to get the feel for Linux and after looking around and trying a couple of flavors settled on Debian because of the GNU as well as the ease of accessing the packages which in hindsight was a great decision. I have been on vacation so the normal person doing this some on the weekend and evening could probably do this in a week and a few hours over a couple of weekends using the download method but I started last Friday night and this morning have a pretty stable Debian installation with X-windows. THis includes learning the system and the lingo at the same time. I prefer to run as a server but need to learn the workstation aspect for some future jobs. I imagine with the CD it would be a pretty painless process. A week ago if you told me that I would be whacking space off my windows partition to make more room for Linux I wouldnt have believed it. I dont guess two calls to the mail list for install help was too bad so thanks all for the help.
New GNU/Penguinpowered convertee Robert At 09:48 AM 5/26/99 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: >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 > >
