if your inittab is set up like slackware's (it just might be) there's one text console open on tty6 as a workaround to a bug in init, and also a nice failsafe if something happens to X. so... hit control-alt F6, and see if you get a console, if so, log in as root and fix your inittab. (it's /etc/inittab, and pretty self-explanitory) On Tuesday October 23, 2001 12:30 pm, you wrote: > Hello, list. I just recently downloaded Red Hat 7.2, and burned it to cd's. > However, I now have a problem. After I installed Red Hat rrestarted, and > loads into x. How do I get out of x, and back into bash, or install Red Hat > without going into x after install? > Also can someone fill me on how do I know some options are being installed > and not installed? I've found the setup of 7.2 quite hard compared to 7.1, > but I'm sure someone out there has done this without much problems. > Any tips and tricks would be helpful. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup