On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 08:12:29AM +1100, David Timms wrote: > Hi, booted up a F21 alpha iso cd, and realized after the long wait that > I didn't have networking configured during boot, and this probably led to: > - no repository > - no package selection possible. > > I thought I would Alt-F1,F2 etc to find the shell (and set up networking > manually, rather than waiting for a second boot cycle). > F1 had the list of ttys along the bottom, but the shell one (F2 from > memory) accepts enter (which outputs a blank line, but never gave a > prompt or other response. > > What's the trick to getting that (usable) shell to do things like > check/set network ? > > Also, should we be able to access wireless network during the first part > of the installer (for network download/install of repos/packages) ? The list of ttys you see along the bottom is from tmux [0]. From that screen if you were to hit `ctrl-b 2` it would switch to the pane labelled 'shell' at the bottom of the screen. I use tmux everyday - it's pretty awesome :) [0] http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ -- // Mike -- Fedora QA freenode: roshi http://roshi.fedorapeople.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
