Or try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to see you can change virtual terminal. Alfred Hovdestad wrote: > If you can't boot at all, there are two methods that I have used. > First if your distribution comes with a rescue CD, you can boot off of > that. In Redhat, you can boot off disk 1 and enter linux rescue. > > If you don't have a rescue CD, the procedure is a little more > involved, but not terribly difficult. If you are using grub as your > bootloader, you can enter an 'e' to edit the boot parameters when the > grub menu is displayed. On the line that begins kernel, press 'e' > again to edit the line and add the word single to the end of the > line. That will boot your system into single-user mode. > > > Once you have the rescue mode running, you can edit the file > /etc/inittab and change the following line: > > id:5:initdefault: > > to > > id:3:initdefault: > > and reboot. This will boot you into multi-user mode without X11. > You will then have your server running and you can tinker with X as > you see fit. > > Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE > University of Saskatchewan > > > > > Garrett Jochimsen wrote: > >> Hello there, I just want to get all programs associated with xfree86 >> off my linux server and try to install it from scratch. Is there any >> easy way to do this? I want to at least have my server up and >> running again. Thank you very much for a quick answer. >> >> >> >> >> >> Garrett Jochimsen >> >> IT Department >> >> Documation LLC >> >> 715-552-5791 >> >> garrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
