[UCLA-LUG] gnome startup

[Todd A. Lyons]

Matt Helsley wrote:

> you will likely have to use more wizardly techniques to begin fixing your

An install disk will do just fine after it's found the CDROM and you can
Alt-F2 over to a bash shell.  But you have to know how to find your
drives/partitions (fdisk) and how to mount them (mkdir, mount) and how
to edit stuff and keep in mind that your temporary mounts will not be
the correct path.  Depending on his confidence level, a reinstall might
not be a bad idea.  I hate to say that because many times that is what
Win XX requires, but like it or not, a newbie without your level of
Linux experience will probably do more harm than good with a text
editor.

> problems. Anyhow, 'linux single' will take you into single user mode
> (assuming you  know root passwd). From there you can use linuxconfig to

What distro's ask for root password?  RH doesn't (Mandrake doesn't
either).
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