Re: Installation Obstacle with X

I gave up and simply re-formatted my hard drive, and reinstalled a very minimal debian package with no x window system. I'm going to print out your post and keep it by my side when i do go ahead and try to install a window manager and other x environments. Thank you very much for taking the tim

Re: Installation Obstacle with X

> I'm a little stuck. > I just installed Debian 2.1 on my old Pentium 166mhz > machine with 64 megs of RAM. > > Installation went fine. I loaded a bunch of stuff off > the CD. After using Slackware 8 for a while, I didn't > find the text-based item-by-item so daunting. > > I did xf86config to see

Re: Installation Obstacle with X

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:01:49AM -0700, John wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:24:31AM -0700, michael flug wrote: > > > > How do I cut off the x window system and get Debian to > > boot shell/terminal/command line, etc. > > > > If I can just get to the command line, I'm sure I can > > work

Re: Installation Obstacle with X

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:24:31AM -0700, michael flug wrote: > How do I cut off the x window system and get Debian to > boot shell/terminal/command line, etc. > > If I can just get to the command line, I'm sure I can > work from there until I figure out the proper > xf86config settings. > > H