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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,19:14 QUOTE

For some reason I couldnt work without the GUI but Im working on a much slower pc and wonder if theres away to make DSL boot so its just plain old text ? The pc its going to run on is extremly slow so GUI wont be much help.
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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,21:20 QUOTE

Try typing "dsl 2" at the boot prompt.

There are other cheatcodes that may help X run on a slower machine, for example "Minimal."  Hit F2 or F3 at the boot prompt to see all the possibilities.


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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,21:30 QUOTE

If you have the ability to use backup/restore, I'd edit /home/dsl/.bash_profile and use that instead of runlevel 2.  Comment out the "startx" line and you'll have your text mode while still being automatically logged in as dsl instead of root.

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Posted: Jan. 23 2006,17:50 QUOTE

for some reason I cant find that file in emelfm and when I use the restore it asks for a server to log into which I have none. the F2 , F3 at the boot screen doesnt do anything. any other ideas? like a file in the DSL directory I could edit like a boot.cfg or something?
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Posted: Jan. 26 2006,10:19 QUOTE

Quote (ice228 @ Jan. 23 2006,12:50)
for some reason I cant find that file in emelfm and when I use the restore it asks for a server to log into which I have none. the F2 , F3 at the boot screen doesnt do anything. any other ideas? like a file in the DSL directory I could edit like a boot.cfg or something?

Its a hidden file so click the "H" in emelfm in order to see hidden files with that file manager.

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