Re: Non-X system.

JD Austin wrote:
>
>
> Major.Mikey wrote:
>
>> If you don't remember I have a second computer which is a pentium I
>> 65536KB which will load NetBSD but I want to be able to get help from
>> you guys (and gals). I was thinking that perhaps the reason it keeps
>> running out of memory when I load Mepis (or one of those) and not BSD)
>> is that it is loading the GUI when I load a live CD which has been
>> installed to HD. As such, this means I need to get a distro which is
>> not from a 'Live CD'.
>> So, does my thought process sound logical here? I'm pretty sure that I
>> can do this with Debian but was wondering what other distro will allow
>> you to not load X. (don't remind me about cntrl-alt-F1 to F8, it runs
>> out of memory when it loads X)
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> I have loaded X on systems like that, the trick is picking a light
> weight window manager.
> In the past I've loaded KDE/whatever and then used icewm as the default
> window manager instead.
> Regarding your question.. all distributions will allow you to not load X.
>
> JD
>
I don't know about NetBSD, but if you add the keyword 'single' to the
kernel boot command, linux will come up in single user (run level 1)
mode, and you can go from there.

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