I assume this is
> the text login for the machine but I never get a chance to type any thing
> in there to prove it.
that's because X is respawning. it should, after a certain number of times,
stop doing for a while to give you a chance to log in.. but there are other
ways around it..
It does pause a little longer occasionally but only by a matter of
millisenconds and not enought time to type anything in. ARGH!
> I have tried Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Q and the enter key as
> suggested in the book to kill the process, but no luck. I would assume
> that this is all happening because I only have 2 MB of graphic memory and
> it is choking on the graphical login.
yes, sounds like your X configuration is messed up.
Is 2MB going to be enough to run KDE or am I going to have to look at a
sperate video card (maybe 8 mb). I did set it for 1024 x 768 and 16 bit
color. Guess I should have tested it first (oops...my bad)
> Can't think of how to change it as I
> cannot even get into the machine yet. Any suggestions?
at the LILO: prompt at bootup enter:
linux 3
this will drop you into runlevel 3 which is a non-graphical (but multiuser,
networked) mode. from there open up /etc/inittab and change the line that
looks like:
id:5:initdefault:
to:
id:3:initdefault:
save, and reboot to test.
I don't have a LILO: prompt but I do have a localhost login: prompt. I have
tried logging from root and as a user but it cannot find the inittab file.
> Second problem is that I am not able to boot up with out the floppy. I
> made a bootdisk using LILO as the boot manager and I think it put the boot
> image on dev/hda2.
odd place for it... you should just put LILO on the MBR for easy booting...
I didn't really follow the instrauctions very well when I was installing I
guess. I would assume moving with mv would be in order? Where should I put
it and what variables do I need to change?
> If I recall my *NIX file architecture correctly hda0
> would be my first partition (/), hda1 my second (/boot)
> and that hda2 is likely my floppy.
no, /dev/fd0 will be your floppy.. /dev/hda2 will be the second partition on
the first disk on the first IDE controller. and there is no /dev/hda0, just
/dev/hda which is the whole disk.
would hda2 be my boot partition? I believe thats the way I set it up.
