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Hi Folks,

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:41:09 +0100, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hello,

> I'm new to the group having installed Basic Linux just yesterday on an old  
> - 
> make that *very* old (17 years) - laptop.
> The machine is very basic too having no network connection and only a 
> floppy 
> disk for software transfer purposes.
> I bought it in a second hand shop for a couple of euro and have 
> unfortunately 
> had to scrap about half the hard disk capacity
> due to bad sectors :-(.

> But the good news is, BL3 works on it albeit without the GUI but who 
> cares... I 
> wanted to learn the linux command line stuff.

> One question to begin with though: Is it possible in some way to halt the 
> avalanche of start -up messages so that
> I can see what's going on before they dissappear from the (black & white 
> ;-)) 
> screen?

  At the CLI type:   dmesg | less

   then you can scroll up and down the bootup messages

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
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