Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-05 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:00, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:30, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On 04 Jun 2003 09:51:25 -0400 Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:00, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:30, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: This is a Debian list, not Red Hat. Runlevels 2-5 are identical by default.

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:10:58AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Pigeon wrote: Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a console. Tried that, no dice. So i re-installed. I'm so impatient,

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:10:58AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Pigeon wrote: Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a console. Tried that, no dice. So i re-installed. I'm so impatient,

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-05 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:28:56PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:10:58AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Tried that too. But when I tried to mount / the files from /etc were missing so I couldn't reconfigure it to not start xdm. I guess it thought that the CD's files were

xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Is there a way to boot into a safe-mode instead of having xdm start? I didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of having xdm start. Is it possible? I tried running my install CD with rescue

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread David Z Maze
Emma Jane Hogbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to boot into a safe-mode instead of having xdm start? I didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of having xdm start. Is it

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:11:35PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there a way to boot into a safe-mode Don't log in as root :-) instead of having xdm start? I didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless screen of junk. You've booted Windoze by mistake :-) I

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:11, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there a way to boot into a safe-mode instead of having xdm start? I didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of having xdm start. Is it

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Pigeon wrote: Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a console. Tried that, no dice. So i re-installed. I'm so impatient, eh? Ack, my apologies - I should have mentioned that there's a shell

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:01, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:11, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there a way to boot into a safe-mode instead of having xdm start? I didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless screen of junk. I need a way to boot the

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Travis Crump
Kevin Mark wrote: There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode so: linux 3 is what I would say. Then you can type 'startx' This is a Debian list, not Red Hat. Runlevels 2-5 are identical by default. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Pigeon wrote: Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a console. Tried that, no dice. So i re-installed. I'm so impatient, eh? Ack, my apologies - I should have mentioned that there's a shell

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode so: linux 3 is what I would say. Then you can type 'startx' This is a Debian list, not Red Hat.

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:30, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode so: linux 3 is what I would say. Then you can

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

2003-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:30:13AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode so: linux 3 is what I would say.