> > Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed > X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This > allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system. > > As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was > able to get on. Even though I was supposedly root, however, I was told > that all my files were read-only, so I could not change. > > Anyway, thanks again!
Hi, Let me just say that the day before yesterday I had almost exactly the same problem, and now I'll try to do this rescue procedure at home (where my linux is). But, I think it`d be interesting to describe what was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFree3.3 I must stop X, so may I kill it?", and I answered, "Of course not!", and then, after dselect complained and finished his work, I wanted to restart dselect at the console, so I... EXITED FVWM2-95, which killed X, which in turn prompted XDM to restart it, and finaly this caused my monitor to start blinking... I was just wondering wether it was not a comom mistake which should be warned about. The instructions mentioned that one dselect run would be sufficient. OK, but then you must run text mode dselect. Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
