On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:00:04PM -0500, William Hooper wrote: > > Timothy Murphy said: > > Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > > > > >> Fdisk has never been removed. It has always been availible > >> for people who want more control over their partitioning than Disk Druid > >> provides. > > > > What you are saying is that there is a secret code known to experts > > for doing this. > > Again, the "secret code" is the standard keystroke for changing virtual > terminals. > > [snip] > > If you tell them > > that something is dangerous you should assume that they have heard you, and > > will either take care or else avoid that method altogether. > > Unfortunately this isn't the case. As a real-world example: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-July/msg00574.html > > > Incidentally, to the many people who have told me > > I should have used Ctr-Alt-F2 rather than Alt-F2, > > I actually explained at one point that I was installing in text mode, > > as the X that comes with Fedora does not run properly on my Sony > > Picturebook (C1VFK). > > But Alt-F2 did not work for me either. > > WORKSFORME. Perhaps your hardware has issues changing virtual terminals? > Ok. if you are going from X to an alternate terminal you have to type ALT- CTL- Fx . To back to X or another terminal then ALT - Fx is enough. F7 usually represents the X terminal. In a text install F1 and F2 will surfice. I just did this a week ago and I think F2 will take you out of the text install and F1 take you back to the install. At worst I have the F1 and F2 reversed. But that certainly works. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
