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Posted: Dec. 04 2005,03:51 QUOTE
is there a way that i can only boot with a shell, as in sometimes i dont want the whole GUI window that goes lower than i need when sometimes all i need is just a shell to run a few commands.  how can i do that?

by the way i cant mount my hard drives, any suggestions?
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Posted: Dec. 04 2005,04:57 QUOTE
edit /home/dsl/.bash_profile
Remove the "startx" line, and backup that file.
When you need to get into X, type "startx".

Your harddrives should be listed in /etc/fstab if they are detected.  They would be /dev/hda# or something similar.  In console use the command "mount   /dev/hda1" for hda1.

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ohioj
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Posted: Dec. 11 2005,11:27 QUOTE
if your text runs off the screen, add the vga=xxx  where xxx
is the three numbers of resolution your graphic card supports.

I use a kinda old laptop with 800x600 resolution. I add the
following line to the grub or lilo menu vga=788

if you are using the liveCD version, it's dsl vga=788
at the boot prompt.
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Posted: Dec. 13 2005,11:09 QUOTE
You could also maybe try using the boot option
dsl 2 vga=normal
if you're running straight from a liveCD. That will drop you into DSL text-mode only console.
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