From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NiXQZ-0005ol-GH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:18:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10978E0AF0; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com (mail-yw0-f182.google.com [209.85.211.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EACE0AF0 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so291819ywh.10 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:17:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BG/OzhylXqMaJ144A0dGqkAqNPu5fY1aWDcNsyj7dRk=; b=lARP6bSiTzImPf4DyJV+cfj3DpVWn6xUprzBUXg3HckehhRcoXpSKjuqX3oJ3mSBkZ 8/vtNSo/BYH9EkCzAj5sr+Y9UJnIg9WLEu5s/Xe8MLDd7hn2jY8eD/VboBoY74a0nAnH r759Wcs/maArJNmPjspTM4+/9iPt5yY7t40fk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x+h/TIKCKgxHcaN9FTK9sSLJXUYxEPgnPWFDXjyG7d4tbuxvVjSmjvCHjCc9yg6tgq nrkWg0citfkgwly5OH77uk731zQK/qhuHrXrGVOCqwl/mgidhoVLslaIfiTFBuVkVaby XQmCnhvxM/4fgNbVa0DfFgSmpAhXCNFx5ZcG8= Received: by 10.91.50.28 with SMTP id c28mr48055agk.115.1266603460439; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-92-165.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.92.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm163715ywd.43.2010.02.19.10.17.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:17:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B7ED5B8.9090502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:17:28 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100205 Gentoo/2.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install References: <87sk8xpiap.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87sk8xpiap.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 60210783-a17b-442c-b511-426928794cf1 X-Archives-Hash: a05561fe8793c42265a3ac4118c2a1d6 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? > > (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) > > There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either > of those ends in a gui. > > I always find it takes me 10 minutes to find a terminal once the gui > comes up. So prefer the text console. > > Looking thru the F2 options.. as well, I don't see a choice that looks > like it might give me a text only console to work in. > > I realize I can do something once I find a command terminal to either > kill X or just use that terminal... but why have to dick around like that? > > Unless it has changed, it is "gentoo nox" at the prompt. Whatever option you want to use, you have to put the gentoo first. At least it was that way the last I used it anyway. If you just put nox, it will ignore it for some reason or other. Hope that helps. Oh, I use Knoppix most of the time. I can surf the web while something compiles. ;-) Dale :-) :-)