Re: can anyone help?

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From: Vikram V Asrani
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:00

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JW <djw1@mindspring.com> wrote:
=> "DX" <dogxunil@jps.net> wrote:

=> Please explain how to boot linux into single mode.

Before telling you that, you need to know that linux provides several
runlevels.  (Check information in /etc/inittab). Runlevel 3 is the full
multiuser mode and runlevel 5 is the X11 mode. Single user mode is runlevel
1 and mounts ONLY the root file system. It can be used for many things. 

To boot up in single user mode, at the lilo prompt, you can type linux
single or linux init=/bin/bash. 

=> you say, "Re-installing is the windows way to do things" however, for

Reinstall is  not a very nice idea until you have screwed up the
installation. 


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Vikram.V.Asrani (vikram@eecs.umich.edu)

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