How to download a file without installing?
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 19:22:57 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 April 2008 17:11:35 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>> On 17/04/2008, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> It's time to admit defeat on this one. I've set selinux to permissive.
>>> I've rebooted and relabelled. I can't even get konsole to run, so no
>>> command-line work is possible. I did hope briefly that simply opening
>>> the package with the installer might realise that I just wanted a
>>> localinstall, but of course you can't add any parameters to that. It
>>> looks like a dead-end on that laptop.
>> You could try ctrl-alt-F1 and use the virtual consoles ...
>>
> It's worth a try, thanks. I've had to leave it for tonight, but I'll try that
> tomorrow. I think, though, that I'm going to have to put one of the mini
> distros on that laptop. Still, it would have been nice to test F9 from the
> hardware POV, even though I always knew it would be too slow to work with.
You can also add a '3' to the end of your kernel parameters in grub before you
boot (edit at the grub menu for just that one time), which will get you to
runlevel 3 and just work in the virtual terminal until you've got the network up
and running (or at least the rpm installed).
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