On 06/22/03 5:28 PM -0400, Jed Barton wrote: > Hey Adam, thanks so much pal. > Now, here's another question for you. Bear with me, i'm brand new at this > linux stuff. > What is a good text editer that i can use on this local console to edit this > file? > I'm going to have a lot fo questions for you, so bear with me. > I think i did do that x windows thing by accident, so i'll hit control alt > f2 when i want to switch to this new mode. > Any good text editer that is pretty friendly? I know you have gotten a lot of suggestions, but you may want to try nano. Its like pico, but it has a few more features and it is fairly easy to use. Eventually learning vi or emacs would probably be to your advantage. > > Thanks, > Jed > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:18 PM > Subject: Re: login issues with new install of redhat 8 > > > > You probably had it start out in X windows by default. You are actually > > at a graphical screen which has yet to be accessible. The good news is > > that you can do something about it. Hit control-alt-F2 to switch to the > > second virtual console. You should be able to read the login prompt here. > > So, log in as root and edit the /etc/inittab file and change the default > > runlevel to 3. The line would look something like "id:3:initdefault:" I > > think it defaults to 4 in Redhat for X windows. run level 3 is text-only. > > Or, you can just leave it alone and always use the virtual consoles 2 > > through 6, but it takes longer to go into X than text mode, and if you > > can't use it, there is really no point loading it. > > > > If you decide to reinstall redhat at some time, pay attention to the > > question when it asks you if you want to start in graphical mode. Yes is > > the default, so you need to change it to no or fix it after the fact. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD
