Caching Fonts Faild

[Caliban]

Hello,

i have a old Laptop (Pentium II, 600MHz, 128MB RAM,10000GB Riserfs, 500MB Swap) and i have installed VectorLinux 5.9, but when i boot it, it hangs by "Caching Fonts" by both GUI and Text Mode.

Is there anything i can do ?

[budulay]

Not a lot of an advies, just my experience:
On my box it says that catching fonts fails and then moves on only if computer is disconected from my  DSL router. In other case all catching of fonts goes just fine.

[Pita]

I have the same problem on an old laptop where I installed VL59-Light-Final, it hangs on booting when it reaches Caching Fonts.

I disabled this function in rc.M and it does then boot all the way to login only I cannot acces the keyboard. End of that story.

Any solution?

Regards

[VLL2008]

I have the same problem on an old laptop where I installed VL59-Light-Final, it hangs on booting when it reaches Caching Fonts.

I disabled this function in rc.M and it does then boot all the way to login only I cannot acces the keyboard. End of that story.

Any solution?

Regards

 How does one disable rc.M  ?

[nightflier]

How does one disable rc.M  ?

Pita is referring to disabling some portions of the script rc.M, not the whole script.
To do this, in a terminal, as root, enter:
mcedit /etc/rc.d/rc.M
scroll down to the section about fonts and add a hash (#) in front of the lines you want to disable.
Hit F2 to save, F10 to exit.

[gldivine]

Hi there,

I am experiencing the same problem (stuck at caching fonts) but how do i get to a terminal and disable some contents of rc.M?
Is there a shortcut to skip startup items and go to terminal maybe something like windows' command prompt mode?

Cheers,

[newt]

perhaps single user mode will get you to the shell....
when lilo appears, hit TAB, then type 'linux single' and ENTER

HTH!