[AuckLUG] GDM problems ,but wait ,theres more :-)

[Kent Wilkinson]

Have you tried using a live cd to boot your laptop instead of a rescue
disk, rescue disks don't usually provide you with many tools. A live cd
will have burning software and provide you with an x environment without
having to worry about your existing install, it should also autodetect
your existing partitions and mount as necessary. Try knoppix or ubuntu.

Regards Kent


Sean Davidson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You may need an ssh server installed on .0.250.
> 
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> Ronald Johns wrote:
>>> More or less the /etc is not mounted or missing...   He previously
>>> mentioned that his root password is not working which more or less the
>>> /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow doesn't exists.  Also, the X conf files
>>> are not
>>> present.  If it was a hardware error, you should least be able to run it
>>> in the most primitive setup and an EE error in the logs will pop-up.
>>>
>>> Post your syslog dmesg, boot.log, xorg.log's.  Check your fstab and mtab
>>> and tell us your fs schema when you're in single user mode...
>>>
>>> To do this:
>>>
>>> on grub hit E
>>> go to kernel line and add number 1 at the very end of the line
>>> hit b
>>> hit b *i think this is the last one*
>>>
>>> by the way do you see the fancy boot splash for FC ?
>>>
>>>     
>> Hi all,
>>        great progress !!!.Working on the sound principal that there are
>>  n ways to skin a cat, I have cobbled together a ethernet crossover cable
>> and got one way communication between two beasts.
>>
>> Now this is the first time I have ever done anything with ethernet or
>> networking etc, all Black Art as far as I have been concerned , so I was
>> amazed when I got some results ,go to whoa in a couple of hours.
>>
>> What I have got is the infamous Laptop running on a rescue shell on which
>> I can see my desktop machine.
>>
>> I entered #ssh gaspode at 192.168.0.1 on the laptop and hay ho ... up
>> came my
>> desktop and I can find and read all my txt files etc.
>>
>> However , when I go the other way...
>> [root at localhost gaspode]# ssh steve at 192.168.0.250
>> ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.250 port 22: Connection refused
>>
>> I think I need to be able to set the laptop to share files ; so can
>> anyone
>> tell me how to do this with command line instructions on the laptop ?
>>
>> Nearly there folks :-)
>> Regards
>> Ron.
>>
>>
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