Laneoh...ok...my mistake :-) I guess I should have said
that I'd been 'kind of following the thread.'
Alan
Lane Lester wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker said:
>
> > LaneI've been silently following the expert thread you speak
> > of. It was my impression that you'd been hacking (I believe
LaneI've been silently following the expert thread you speak
of. It was my impression that you'd been hacking (I believe you
called it customizing) the init files a bit before your problem
occurred and this was the probable root cause of your problem.
Anyway, I decided to try changing defaul
Michael Scottaline said:
> Absolutely NO need to reinstall!!
> Even to permanently switch to a non X boot (which I do not believe the
> original poster was looking to achieve), a reinstallation is not necessary.
A
> simple edit of /etc/inittab will change the runlevel
> id:5:initdefault
> J
"magick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try running the install again and this time choose custom as far as i know
> recomended always sets x to start up imediatley after boot but custom gives
> you the choice
Absolutely NO need to reinstall!!
Even to permane
try running the install again and this time choose custom as far as i know
recomended always sets x to start up imediatley after boot but custom gives
you the choice
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Mandrake Linux 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron (portable
> computer) and I have been warned to edit the lilo.conf file before the first
> boot (the LCD Display needs some special care and settings). Unfortunately,
I
> am given no chance to re
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Mandrake Linux 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron (portable
> computer) and I have been warned to edit the lilo.conf file before the first
> boot (the LCD Display needs some special care and settings). Unfortunately, I
> am given no chance to re
Actually, that may be intentional (I use 6.5).
If you have access to linuxconf or something similar it will be easy. All
you have to do is switch the runlevel from 5 (X) to 3 (text)
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