Thank you for your response.
I forgot about the specs. -x gets me into the system okay. but like I said I have no internet connection. in some other things are missing. I guess because I'm in safe mode.

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1015 SSE SSE2 SSE3
Memory: 768 MB
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
Seagate ULTRA ATA 120 gb Barracuda for leopard
SATA 250 for a tiger
SATA 250 for Windows XP