[mythtv-users] How To Telnet In (Was: KnoppMyth, too good to be true?)

[Justin The Cynical]

Blake wrote:

>I'm using a NetGear firewall as the DHCP server. And looking at it, I see  
>that it's set to assign 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.50. Nothing for the  
>Knoppmyth box.
>  
>
That's not good.

>I did a few other tests to learn what I could and the results were  
>disturbing. All my Knoppix (not Knoppmyth) discs did the same thing,  
>except that I could Alt+F1 out of them into the command line. Also, the  
>router reported giving them 192.168.0.7.
>
>This disturbs me because I've run those Knoppix discs on this machine  
>before. So I have no explanataion for what has changed. Perhaps if I could  
>interrupt the boot process prior to the Gnome launch.
>  
>
Well, you could boot from one of those CD's, mount the knopmyth drive 
and change the default runlevel to 3.