RE: [newbie] HOW TO STOP XSERVER FROM LOADING
at the lilo prompt type "linux 3" (without quotes) -Original Message- From: Gunther C. Hebein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HOW TO STOP XSERVER FROM LOADING I got another problem: My root-partition is full. As I decided for an graphical login when I installed Mandrake, the XServer is loaded before you can login. But the Server doesn't start anymore, maybe because the root-partition is full. The server more or less hangs until i press Ctrl-Alt-Del. How can I stop the loading of the graphical login, so that I can delete some files from the root-partition in textmode? MfG Gunther
Re: [[newbie] HOW TO STOP XSERVER FROM LOADING]
"Gunther C. Hebein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got another problem: My root-partition is full. As I decided for an graphical login when I installed Mandrake, the XServer is loaded before you can login. But the Server doesn't start anymore, maybe because the root-partition is full. The server more or less hangs until i press Ctrl-Alt-Del. How can I stop the loading of the graphical login, so that I can delete some files from the root-partition in textmode? MfG Gunther = At the boot prompt type "linux 3" w/o the quotes. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] HOW TO STOP XSERVER FROM LOADING
Bob Chin wrote: "Gunther C. Hebein" wrote: I got another problem: My root-partition is full. As I decided for an graphical login when I installed Mandrake, the XServer is loaded before you can login. But the Server doesn't start anymore, maybe because the root-partition is full. The server more or less hangs until i press Ctrl-Alt-Del. How can I stop the loading of the graphical login, so that I can delete some files from the root-partition in textmode? MfG Gunther you need to edit /etc/inittab look for the line id:5:initdefault: and change it to id:3:initdefault: Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I didn't realize you just wanted to temporarily disable the graphical logon. My solution is more of a permanent one. If the xserver crashed, you can also try typing Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 to get another console where you can log in and kill the xserver.
