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Posted: June 27 2005,22:54

I have been given an old laptop. It is an IBM 701c which is a 486dx. I don't have a diskette drive or cdrom for it. I installed frugal on a 6g hard drive using a different laptop. I inadvertantly set the video wrong. I need to set it for frame buffer. It boots o.k. but when it is time for the gui to pop up it never does. From this point is there a way to get to a command prompt? Is there a way to break out during initial load? I think if I could get to a command prompt I could run xsetup.sh and reset things correctly. I have tried alt-F1-F4 with no luck. I have tried cntl-alt-backspace with no luck. I hate to have to tear things down and start over. Any ideas will be appreciated.

David