On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, > all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. > > Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has > an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably > modern with most of the latest drivers etc. > > I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to > Ubuntu. > > thanks...
David it looks as if you are quite a newby <gee how do you say that kindly, and I do mean it so>. All the distros can give you text mode. You are probably best off using a terminal session within X. I think that you'd be best off using something like knoppix (dsl, puppylinux etc) then choosing something that suits your style/application when you have a better insight to what is available, what it can do, and what you want to do. Most distros have tools to do the hard stuff. They are often X based. I just about never use anything but CLI, but an xterm is more comfortable than a console. Cheers James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
