Re: ooops

["Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

so i typed in "Linux Single" at the Lilo prompt and it booted up, gave me
"bash#" and i had no real idea what to do... i tried to see if there was
anything i could do and all i actually knew how to do was "shutdown -r now"
and so that's what i did... unfortunately i'm still very much unknowing in
the commands and run of Linux... any help would be appreciated...

*here i continue on about my computer*

from limited experience prior to this (with RH5.2) i found that i really
liked it... it flew on my computer when all i had was 32megs of RAM... i
started getting into online video games and needed more RAM, Hard Drive room
became a precious commodity as well, so unfortunately i killed my linux (and
there was great weeping and gnashing of teeth) and waited till i got all the
important stuff together... voila it was yesterday and i installed Linux
onto a single HDD (cause my Win98 is on the other) i have a full 128megs of
RAM, and i'm sporting a 33.6 USR Faxmodem... my computer at one point was a
Gateway (then i started fiddiling) and so it has the sound card and video
card integrated into the motherboard, i know that there's 4megs of video RAM
there (my VooDoo2 i'm not to concerned about right now) and i have an Intel
Celeron running about 333... thanks if this helps at all then woohoo... like
i said i installed RH5.2 on this before, kinda got it working, and then
needed it's space... i was very impressed with the latest and greatest RH
release... 6.1, all GUI install and everything... i liked the tab around in
red menus better, but it's impressive none-the-less...



>> do stuff... anyhow mine seems to have... here's my new problem... i'm
>no
>> longer concerned about getting the proper screen resolution (cause
>that's
>> less important now) than i am about getting Linux to display again...
>it
>> does nice and fine as it boots up, no problems until the login
>screen... CLI
>> logon is there for a split second and then nothing but this little
>clicking
>> sound... more like a miniature *pop* every few seconds... 2
>
>You ran an X setup utility?  The "pop" is your monitor trying to sync
>every time X attempts to start the display because the config is
>screwed.
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>> Ctrl-Alt-Delete's later and i get more CLI going through the reboot
>stage...
>> little error message, (and i quote): "error writing to file
>/etc/mtab.tmp :
>> insufficient space" or something like that, i tried to write it down,
>but it
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>Uuu, fun.  Your system is all one paritition?  I'd wager xdm-error.log
>file has
>filled the file system.
>
>> moves fast... and before you ask let me tell you, i tried to switch to
>> another terminal via Ctrl-Alt-F(n) (with n of course being a number
>either
>> 1-7) and voila, an amazing black screen... also i dual-boot this
>system and
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>Ok, when you get the "lilo:" prompt enter "linux single" and see what
>happens.
>
>> right now am writing an e-mail from the Win98 boot (seperate HDD's)
>any
>> ideas? mayhaps i should reformat the drive again and install all over?
>
>Stop re-intsalling!  This is a real operating system, that is NOT a
>solution.
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