How to download a file without installing?

[Andrew Farris]

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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