Please excuse my ignorance, but what is single user mode?

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On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:35 AM, "Jonathan C. Cohn" <jonc...@cox.net> wrote:

> That is all you would get from single user mode.  single user mode only has 
> the very basic of programs running.  It will not even set up your network.  
> 
> So, you could run single user mode, configure the network with ifconfig 
> commands. Start sshd and then start terminal on a second machine and ssh into 
> the first machine.  I believe in your case however, you should just need to 
> run startup diagnostics.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Jonathan Cohn
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> 
> On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:45 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> 
>> . 
>> I was trying to boot into single user mode just now, but instead of booting, 
>> I got a screen with some text on it; that was all I could make out, that 
>> their was probably some text on the screen and not my desktop. How do I 
>> actually boot into this mode? I want to do this so I can test as much of my 
>> ran as I can. Thanks. 
>> 
>> 
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