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Old 08-16-2002
Question Interactive Mode?

Smilie Can anyone please tell me how to get into Interactive Mode?
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Old 08-16-2002
Do you mean from Text mode to GUI Mode ?

Anyway if you wanted to boot to GUI mode type startx if you want to start without loading X, edit /etc/inittab and change the default run-level to 2. Alternately you can get to a plain console login prompt by pushing Ctrl-Alt-F1 from within X.
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Old 08-16-2002
If I get the boot: (interface) what should I do from there... start-up linux but not to load all the configiration files. When linux wants to start the ppp0 device... it just freezes... so, I want to start-up linux without that device.. and when i'm logged in I can change the configiration so that my linux boot up....
 
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