Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-07 Thread Thereidos
W liście z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 22:25, Stew Benedict pisze: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Thereidos wrote: > > > W li6cie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: > > > Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add "5" in the > > > "append=" line, giving it a new label (don'

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-07 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Thereidos wrote: > W li6cie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: > > Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add "5" in the > > "append=" line, giving it a new label (don't forget to rerun lilo after > > editing) > > So it would look like th

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-07 Thread Thereidos
W liście z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: > Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add "5" in the > "append=" line, giving it a new label (don't forget to rerun lilo after > editing) So it would look like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux"

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-06 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 15:21, Thereidos wrote: > > W liście z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 23:10, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > > > Couldn't you set things so your father logs in to run level 5 while > > > you can log into run level 3 I have no idea how to do tha

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 15:21, Thereidos wrote: > W liÅcie z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 23:10, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > > Couldn't you set things so your father logs in to run level 5 while > > you can log into run level 3 I have no idea how to do that > > however. > > I don't think this is possible.

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-06 Thread Thereidos
W liście z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 23:10, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > Couldn't you set things so your father logs in to run level 5 while you > can log into run level 3 I have no idea how to do that however. I don't think this is possible. Or maybe? If this is possible to run linux exclusively in runle

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:42, Thereidos wrote: > W liÅcie z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 02:35, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > > I think you are wrong. As nonroot I click on the KDE logout > > button select turn computer off and everything goes off except for > > the monitor. Which I have to turn off. Gnome

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 16:46, Edgars Smits wrote: > It's splash=silent and still doesn't solve my problem. With that > set I get a text mode LILO start, but then as soon as the init > starts it goes to a light blue screen with a bar area in the > middle that never actually fills in as it boot

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
perfect, getting rid of vga=788 did the trick for me. Many thanks ED Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:46, Edgars Smits wrote: It's splash=silent and still doesn't solve my problem. With that set I get a text mode LILO start, but then as soon as the init starts it goes to a light b

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:46, Edgars Smits wrote: > It's splash=silent and still doesn't solve my problem. With that set I > get a text mode LILO start, but then as soon as the init starts it goes > to a light blue screen with a bar area in the middle that never actually > fills in as it boots,

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
It is set to 3. I've done 2 complete clean installs of 10.1 CE, both ended up the same, never had this problem with 10,0 or versions prior to this. ED Paul wrote: Op Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:46:29 -0400 schreef Edgars Smits: In MCC I have Boot Theme turned off, no auto-login with or without graphic

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Paul
Op Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:46:29 -0400 schreef Edgars Smits: >In MCC I have Boot Theme turned off, no auto-login with or without >graphical start, and when the boot finishes I do get dumped into a semi >text mode - the blue screen is still there with the crappy logo, the >text mode rides on top of i

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 15:42, Thereidos wrote: > W liÅcie z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 02:35, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > > I think you are wrong. As nonroot I click on the KDE logout button > > select turn computer off and everything goes off except for the > > monitor. Which I have to turn off. Gnome has

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
It's splash=silent and still doesn't solve my problem. With that set I get a text mode LILO start, but then as soon as the init starts it goes to a light blue screen with a bar area in the middle that never actually fills in as it boots, the words Community 10.1 with a graphic line, that's it,

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Thereidos
W liście z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 02:35, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > I think you are wrong. As nonroot I click on the KDE logout button > select turn computer off and everything goes off except for the > monitor. Which I have to turn off. Gnome has a logout icon also which > works simular. Shutdown

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Thereidos
W liście z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 01:00, Stephen Kühn pisze: > > Currently I do have inittab switched to runlevel 3 but to use shutdown > > you need a root access which I won't give my father. Or maybe I'm wrong? > > You can use the "poweroff" or "reboot" command instead of shutdown -h I have ju

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 14:37, Edgars Smits wrote: > I've always started in 3, but since I did a clean install to 10.1 > I can't get rid of the graphic startup screen, the only way I can > see my startup is to hit once it starts. I then can watch > everything come up and get dumped into a termi

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:37, Edgars Smits wrote: > I've always started in 3, but since I did a clean install to 10.1 I > can't get rid of the graphic startup screen, the only way I can see my > startup is to hit once it starts. I then can watch everything come > up and get dumped into a termi

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
I've always started in 3, but since I did a clean install to 10.1 I can't get rid of the graphic startup screen, the only way I can see my startup is to hit once it starts. I then can watch everything come up and get dumped into a terminal logon session. In previous versions it was terminal fr

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Huff
> I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like > to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm > afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5. Or you could set his account to startx by modifying the .bash_profile file. Add startx in there, and make sure KDE

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 04 October 2004 17:32, Thereidos wrote: > W liÅcie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: > > > Thanks. > > > I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like > > > to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm > > > afraid I'll have to chan

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:32, Thereidos wrote: > W liście z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: > > > Thanks. > > > I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like > > > to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm > > > afraid I'll have to change

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 00:32, Thereidos wrote: > Currently I do have inittab switched to runlevel 3 but to use shutdown > you need a root access which I won't give my father. Or maybe I'm wrong? Let him use "halt" (without the quotes) -- Good luck, HarM _

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 00:32, Thereidos wrote: > W liÅcie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: > > > Thanks. > > > I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would > > > like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) > > > Thus I'm afraid I'll have to cha

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Thereidos
W liście z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze: > > Thanks. > > I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like > > to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm > > afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5. > > Why not boot into runlevel 3 on

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 04 October 2004 23:39, Thereidos wrote: > W liÅcie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 22:16, Kaj Haulrich pisze: > > On Monday 04 October 2004 22:12, Thereidos wrote: > > > Hi there. > > > > > > Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't > > > noticed it in archive. > > > > > > The

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Thereidos
W liście z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 22:16, Kaj Haulrich pisze: > On Monday 04 October 2004 22:12, Thereidos wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't > > noticed it in archive. > > > > The question is simple: how can I manually turn off starting X > > se

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 04 October 2004 22:12, Thereidos wrote: > Hi there. > > Sorry if this question has been asked before bit I haven't > noticed it in archive. > > The question is simple: how can I manually turn off starting X > server during the boot up? I know it can be done in MCC but I'd > like to learn