Rescuing a veteran : F14, PowerEdge SC1420, HP w2207h

[James Mckenzie]

Ted Roche <tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:
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>On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
>>        If I can find an old one, I'll try copying it in; but I doubt
>> that'll work ...
>>
>
>If you execute Xorg :0 -configure as root, it will write out an xorg.conf.
>
>man Xorg for more details.
>
>You would need to stop X before you issue that command, either booting
>into a non-X runlevel or switching to one. I'm not sure how you'd do
>that in a liveCD, but hope that helps a bit.
>
init 3 should do the trick.  If you are booting up the LiveCD you should be able to select text install from the boot menu as well.

James McKenzie