Are you following the steps in the installation HOWTO? It tells you how to do this after booting. It involves going into single user mode. Also, you should be able to Ctrl-Z to a shell prompt from the reboot screen. Jeremy R Schmidt writes: > Hello everyone. > > Since fc4 doesn't talk during installation, I installed over telnet. > > Now, when it asks to reboot, I press alt and f2, but nothing happens. > > Apparently, my telnet program is not sending the alt key over the telnet connection. > > Is there a way to do this? > > I'd like to be able to turn firstboot off, etc, but don't know how to do this. > > Thanks, > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org