Dear Prasad, >From your mail it looks like you have been able to successfully start X. I would be grateful if you tell me how did you do it, specs of your mother board etc. I am having debian potato 2.2 r5 + win 98 on PIII, 20 GBHDD, i810 E motherboard
~Sachin if the list resources are being hogged by same thing over & over again, yucan mail me personally also. ----- Original Message ----- From: Prasad Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] Solved startx in Debian - now new problem > Dear Bish, > > Thanks for the help .Actually I had a crude solution > for it.I renamed xdm to xdmold and so the calls to xdm > through S99xdm script in directories rcX.d( x = 3,4,5) > was disabled.Anyway my solution is not as per right > philosophy so would surely be using your solution. > It is very starnge to know why init processes in > different distros are different.For a person like me > who is new to Linux(I was totally a windows guy... and > not having comp.science background) it is difficult to > digest. > > 2tgz utility written by you is now clear to me and I > am able to follow the mannual procedure to convert deb > to tgz as sugessted by one of your replies to my > mails. > > Regards, > > Prasad > > > --- USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:01:34AM -0700, Prasad > > Paranjape wrote: > > > > > > Anyway I have new problem > > > > > > When I boot into debian I go into X mode because > > the boot process > > > tells that it is running xdm. I do not want to > > boot in X but > > > should go to multiuser palin console mode. > > [snipped] > > > How to disable this I know in MDK or Slack but not > > in Debian. > > > > > ---end quoted text--- > > > > See LOST #045 below > > > > Bish > > > > -- > > : > > ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) > > ]########################### > > > > Sub : Console boot (debian systems) > > LOST #045 > > > > To boot into console with xdm/ gdm/ kdm installed, > > changing > > at /etc/inittab does not help. Use the > > [update-rc.d] program > > meant for changing init parameters in Sys-V init > > process. All > > system startup links for /etc/init.d/xdm will be > > removed. viz > > > > #update-rc.d -f xdm remove (or gdm / kdm) > > > > > ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>################################### > > : > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-india-help mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
