Good evening, Based on what y'all said, I'd say I'm in a "dracut shell". I cannot reach any login whatsoever, using any of the techniques y'all suggested. The "/var/log/" directory is empty. There is no "/var/cache/" directory. The directory "/usr/bin/" does not have many things in it. It does have "less" and "vi" and "cp" and "mount" and "umount" and others, but no "more, no "man". Fortunately, "vi" (and "vim", "gvim", and "view") are the editors I'm most comfortable with. There is no "nano". I saw no browser or e-mail, but I did see "ping". I did not see any "/home/" directory! (This has me seriously concerned!) "sudo" and "dnf" are not available. If you can give me good complete answers to a few questions, it will help me to help you to help me: 1. I do have USB ports on the front of my tower. How can I find out their device IDs? 2. How can I get this dracut shell to recognize and talk to a USB stick inserted into one of those USB ports? Since I don't have the "man" command, but I do have "mount" and "umount" commands, maybe I can use them to help me get information to you. 3. I know how to use "cp" to copy files around various directories, but I don't know how to use "cp" to copy files to a USB stick. With these, I hope that I can put the desired logs onto the USB stick, and then use the windows system to put log file lines-of-interest here in the fedora users forum. Thank-you for your help. Bill. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
