After you boot you can use the command "dmesg" and pipe it through "less" or "more". For example at the prompt, $ dmesg | less
That won't show the whole boot message but most of it. hth, kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > as you can see I'm new in that media because that's my second try to post a > question, because I didn't see my first mail, sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hopefully now that's the right way. > > I startet with debian installed from a CD included in the german magazin CHIP > last year. > Having troubles in configuring an xserver on my debian linux system I'm faced > the following: > when booting linux there are lots auf messages scrolling away, so I can't > read. > I guess they are stored in a logfile anywhere in the system for later viewing. > But where? > Could anybody give advice? > > Thank's for hints > Wolfgang > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null