[nflug] Live CD help

Mark T. Valites mark-nflug at valites.net
Thu Mar 30 16:31:30 EST 2006


On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Joe wrote:

> Do you know how to tell the Knoppix Live CD to skip the gui and just 
> give me 800x600 (vga) and the command prompt?  Somehow I broke it during 
> boot up and got there, but I'd like to do it more easily next time. 
> Without mouse support, the gui is almost worthless.

At the knoppix prompt:

knoppix> knoppix 3

You can get a list of knoppix cheatcdes at:

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

The O'Reilly Knoppix Hacks book is also excellent - quite a surprising 
amount of knowledge actually.

PS. You used an address of root@<your_domain> in the from field of this 
message - depending on how you're using this, it may potentially be 
dangerous.
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