On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > > I think you can boot to a command prompt directly by entering "linux > > > single" at the grub prompt (if you're using grub) > > > > this is single user mode and redhats config tools may not work. they > > require an X server and if i am not mistaken X requires multiuser mode > > As far as I've seen all of redhat's config/admin tools work primarily in > textmode. The GNOME version is an additional frontend. that used to be the case in older versions of redhat(netconfig, Xconfigurator, sndconfig) the later versions of redhat now use redhat-config-* which start a minimal svga X server if none is started already. iirc you can still use the old tools but they are not installed by default. > Besides, singe user mode just means no daemons are automatically > started, there's really nothing stopping you from manually starting X > other than probably needing to start xfs first. PAM may or may not stop > anyone but root from logging in too. i stand corrected, after testing on some boxes it appears that one can in fact get X working in single user mode. path statements need to be configured but otherwise everything works. -- Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET http://redconcepts.net/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list