YDL on Powerbook 15"

[Harvey Ussery]

Justin,    There is much I can't help with; but with regards to the 
questions below: Have you tried entering single user mode in order to 
get you into your YDL install & able to make needed changes? If so, good 
luck with other approaches. If not:

(1) Insert your 1st YDL install disk in the CD-ROM tray. Reboot from the CD.
(2) At the first prompt you get, type
linux  single <enter>  [Note space betw linux & single.]
(3) This will boot you into your YDL system, but in "single user" mode: 
You will be in a shell, though not the bash shell you may be more 
familiar with. You will not need to log in as root, but >>you will have 
power of root<< so be careful! You will be able to cd to directories in 
the filesystem where you need to work. You will be able to cat in order 
to read config files. And you will have access to any text editor you 
installed when you did your initial YDL install. (I installed my 
preferred emacs, so that would be available to me. But pico should 
certainly have been installed by default.)

Let us know how this works & post again if you have quesitons.  Good 
luck.    --Harvey

Justin Mack wrote:

>
>  The problem is that the X-server is my default start-up method so no 
> matter what I try to do, I can't keep the X-server from launching. Is 
> there a way to do this? Also, is there a utility or app for OS X that 
> will allow me to mount my Linux partitions so that I can even look at 
> various logs or edit config files?