"Alan Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Brian V Bonini" wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:59 -0500 ): > |>What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a > |>floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the > |>.xsession file that resides in /root. Please HELP........ > |> Thanks > |> -Brian, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > |> > > Why don't you just log in with your user account and su to or even > login as root? You can also wait for the X server to start up and > then hit Ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a console... >
I could add to this that in order to stop xdm from starting up at boot time, you need to edit the file /etc/X11/config (as root). Change the line "start-xdm" to "no-start-xdm". - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
