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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Nick Morrison <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>, David Drury <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:47:23 +0900

RE: FIXED RH 6.2 refuses to install properly

At 02:02 PM 6/28/00 +0930, Nick Morrison wrote:
> > > If you don't what to deal with X, why not type Ctrl-Alt-F1 to 
> > > get back to a console (they are still there), log in, and then change 
> > > inittab and go to run level 3 (init 3).
> > 
> > Hmm didn't think of that one. Menatl note for next time :)
>
>.. X doesn't run from the first console does it?  If it does - there won't
>be a prompt on Ctrl-Alt-F1 - you may need Ctrl-Alt-F[2-6] instead.

No, it does not run behind F1 ... So Ctrl-Alt-F1 is fine with a standard boot.

If you had typed startx, then you will find it still running on the console
that you ran it from, but you can simply type ^Z and background it and go on.

>Nick
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
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