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[MarkB]

Hi, I've been struggling to get Puppy working on an old Toshiba Tecra for which we've lost the removable CD-ROM drive. It has a USB port but won't boot from it but I've managed to get Puppy to boot from the hard drive but it hangs at the prompt "Starting X with video mode..."

Is there a way to drop out to the # prompt before getting to the 'Starting X' stage?

Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3 gives a terminal screen with no prompt which doesn't respond to commands.

The PC has 128MB RAM and a Mobile Pentium II 400. It's the latest version of Chubby Puppy.

Thanks Mark B.

[Guest]

OK..

Delete\rename your pup001 file.

When puppy boots and it gets to the screen where it asks for your keyboard just press ctrl-c

then

#mp /etc/profile

and change

xwin

to

#xwin

reboot and you'll go straight to the command prompt

[MarkB]

Many thanks for your prompt reply Bladehunter.

That's got me a bit further and I've detailed the next stage of my problems on a new post here;
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1771

Thanks again MarkB.