Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:38:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: fadorno@juno.com (Fred Adorno) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Getting back control of terminal Message-ID: <199606301538.LAA04981@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <19960630.035911.10326.0.fadorno@juno.com> from Fred Adorno at "Jun 30, 96 03:59:11 am"
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Fred Adorno wrote... > I installed XFree86 and configured the /etc/ttys so that the xterm would > come up on boot. Now it appears that I can't move the mouse without > causing the window to disappear, but what I really want to do is diable > XFree from coming up on boot. Is there a way or do I have to reinstall > everything again? Boot from floppy? > No problem :-). Boot in single-user mode. When you get the boot: prompt, type '-s' (without the quotes, of course) and your system will come up in single-user mode and you can re-edit 'rc.local' (or wherever you put the command. Then exit your shell and the system completes its boot. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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