Re: [Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?]

2000-04-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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

Re: [Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?]

2000-04-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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

Re: [Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?]

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
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

Re: [Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?]

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
"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

Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?

2000-04-08 Thread magick
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 - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:57 PM Subject: [newb

Re: [[newbie] How to avoid starting X ?]

2000-04-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
[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

Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?

2000-04-08 Thread Jon
[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

Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?

2000-04-08 Thread Icebreaker
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) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>