Steven Dickenson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:06:04PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Now I have a problem since X won't work and I can't kill it via > > ctrl-alt-backspace. (perhaps since this is a laptop and the keyboard > > mapping is wrong - see [xf86config keyboard question] thread) I tried > > booting off the cd and mounting the / partition. I was looking for a way > > to avoid starting X but I don't know the correct way. > > I'm assuming that you're using XDM, or one of its alternatives, to > automatically start X at startup. An easy way to bypass this is to boot > the system into single-user mode. You can do this from the LILO prompt. > When your system boots up, hold down the "Shift" key to get the LILO > boot: prompt. Then type in the name of your Linux boot image (default > is "Linux") followed by " single". This will boot your system into > single user mode, allowing you to make changes to your system, including > reconfiguring your run-levels to bypass XDM, or reconfiguring X to get > it to work.
I was trying to figure this out -- I thought it was tab. I used the boot CDROM and mounted the file system and canned the S99xdm symbolic link in rc2.d. Weird thing is that /etc/fstab didn't have entries for /dev/hda3 and 4 which where holding /var and /tmp respectively. > > > I suggest you start another thread on that subject, > preferably in debian-laptop, as it's more appropriate over there. I'll give that a whirl. > > Don't forget, most Linux newbies end up re-installed their system > several times during the first month or so until they get everything > just right. The second time went much better. I also the apt-get did update everything on install. I did an apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade afterwords and nothing got altered. Pretty darn cool. Great to be a debian user and thanks for the help. Eric :-)
