i need help quick!!
i have to modify my xf86config bacause i can no longer see a GUI and i cant do it through the text screen because i cannot see it .
is there a way i can do it from my windows patition.

please help i cant possably stand Micro$haft Winblow$ for much longer (lol)

You can't mount ext2, ext3 or Reiserfs partitions from windows. Sorry. You should be able to hit <ctrl>+<alt>+F1 to switch back to text mode when your linux install is done booting. Or chose to boot up in single user mode.

Explore2fs will allow you to see and I think write to files on your Linux partitions.

explore2fs is a bit dangerous with writing.... but it should work

can you not see your bootup because you were using a framebuffer console?

if so, try passing the vga=normal option to the kernel as you select slack from lilo

ok i downloaded explore2fs .
i can read the file i want to edit and i can type in it however i cannot save it . (i mean that, when i edit the file and save it. i open it to check if my editing saved ok, it goes back to the way it was before i rectified it.)

please help.

Luke.

try using the vga=normal on the boot prompt or you can use a rescue disc that either comes with your distro or use a live cd like knoppix or slax

both of those can mount your hdd partitions and then edit files

i onlyhave 1 slack CD im usin an older version of slack. it is slackware 8.1
i dont have a way to make a recovery disk .... i dont have a floppy drive.
please help i really really DONT want to reinstall.

You should be able to boot with the Slack 8.1 CD. (For the record, I've only used 9.1)

When the prompt comes up, type
bare.i root=/dev/hda2

assuming that /dev/hda2 is your Linux partition. You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file from there (after you log in, of course).

"i need help quick!!
i have to modify my xf86config bacause i can no longer see a GUI and i cant do it through the text screen because i cannot see it .
is there a way i can do it from my windows patition."


Have you ever heard of a command line text editor?

Your setup may be different but if at lilo you type in "linux 1",that is "linux[single space]1[one]" you will boot boot into a terminal at which you can log in as root and edit your XF86Config or whatever using vi or my preference mcedit"

It's not a very good idea to be altering/editing anything on your linux filesystems when they are not up, espeacially from windows with notepad or wordpad. Someone may pop up here and say "I did" but I wouldn't.

Try using this.............SLAX Live CD.....................that is if you can burn ISOs. It's small, but uses KDE for a GUI. It's based on Slack and autoloads any partitions it can see.

as it turn out ... i couldnt fix it ... so i had to reinstall

why couldn't you? Next time, do this:
act like you're going to install Slack, but when you can start doing the partitioning with fdisk and all that:
mkdir /mnt/hda1
mount *whatever your /etc partition is on* /mnt/hda1
cd /mnt/hda1/etc/X11/xf86config(Or whatever the path is)
and then pico and vi are great friends.

Oh, this is also why I have TTY5 and TTY6 as text consoles under rc.4