disk is full problem

[Longman, Bill]

> hello, I cannot get by the log in screen because a message 
> says that I 
> am out of disk space. How can I get to a terminal so I can 
> 'ls' and do a 
> few 'rm' commands. Is there a way to use the cd's that I have 
> from ydl 
> 4.0 or? I tried all the possibilities at the log in screen, 
> including a 
> failsafe terminal and gnome etc.

Boot into single user mode. You should be able to just say "boot linuximg 1"
and you should be in single user mode. Otherwise, you *may* be able to boot
off the CDs but you don't mention your machine type so we can't tell.