John Seago wrote:
seems to want to log me on with a GUI and does'nt give me time to log on to the command line and then startx.
Hello, John - glad to see you're still hanging in there!
I've never used Debian but I expect it's like all the others in this respect: look for a file in the /etc directory called 'inittab'. In that file, you should find a line that reads thus:
id:5:initdefault:
If you change the 5 to a 3, save the file and then re-boot, you should find that it runs up with the standard login, rather than the graphical one.
Of course, to edit this, you'd best have MC working, so maybe you need to get that installed first. Hopefully someone else can put you out of your misery with that problem - as I say, I've never used Debian.
Hope this helps?
Gerald.