boot failure

[Thomas Sorensen]

Olaf Olson wrote:

> Here's a nickel's worth. According to the man page for less:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>       Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows 
> backward  move-
>       ment in the file as well as forward movement.
>
> So, after all this time, not quite fully reading your e-mails, your 
> problem editing /etc/inittab seems to be that you are using a viewer 
> (less), when you should be using an editor (vi or pico), as Jeff 
> states below. Both are a bit arcane, being UNIX based text edtors, but 
> man pages are available for each of those, too.
>
> If you haven't got those available, let us know and someone can send 
> you the text from their own man pages, to explain the use of vi or pico.
>
> Olaf
>
> Jeff Folk wrote:
>
>> Yes, you should use vi or pico as root to edit the file.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Apr 27, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Thomas Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>> OK I believe what you are saying and he admits he has no experience 
>>> with a
>>> Mac or YDL and is just trying to help. My question to you is why 
>>> won't the
>>> etc/inittab allow me to edit it, do I need to open it in another 
>>> program to
>>> make the change to level 3, when I use less /etc/inittab it seem to 
>>> be more
>>> of a read only program. One other observation if I type single in 
>>> the kernel
>>> exceptions I get to a command line promp of sh-2.05b# and it won't 
>>> go any
>>> further. I'm sorry to have offended anyone by my lack of Linux 
>>> knowledge and
>>> have posted also on the newbie list but got no responses, I thought 
>>> the idea
>>> of the mailing list was to help other people out and try to expand Linux
>>> usage. Thanks
>>
>>
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I have used vi to edit my /etc/inittab file to run level 3 as everyone 
had suggested and then ran startx but get  an error message that says 
server error message 11. If I want to use Xconfigurator will I also run 
this in vi?