At 02:19 PM 7/21/99 +1000, Praxus wrote:
>(1) When my machine boots it automatically goes into X, how could I
> modify the boot process to disable this sometimes ( Eg. what is the
> Linux Equivelant to Autoexec.bat + Config.sys)
/etc/inittab and the rc* files it causes init to run. In inittab, look for
the line that says (probably)
id:4:initdefault:
This tells init what runlevel to start at (4 is usually, but NOT ALWAYS, the
runlevel for an X-only system Slackware is 5, for example). Change it to
(probably) 3 and you'll get a regular command-line prompt.
>
>(2) When my machine starts it takes an extremely long time to get
> into X, about 20 minutes and so far I haven't been able to get in.
> What is going on ?. I have a 486DX2 66, 8mb Ram, 32mb Swap, 400MB
> Root
What's going on (probably) is that you have too little memory to run X well,
plus an old, slow CPU. The system has to page (swap) a lot and that's slow.
My 486, with 32 megs RAM, takes about two minutes to initialize X, and
that's without any swapping.
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